NOTES for Gal 3:7
What is the first thing we remember about Abraham? That he "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness." "Believed" here means nothing light or simple. Abraham's faith is labor and struggle. He gathered his family and went where God called him. No one could stop him, he listened to no one. He trusted God so much that he was ready to sacrifice his only son. He received God in his home; he was the first to experience communion with the Trinity. And all this happened to him not because he was righteous in himself. On the contrary, he was sinful, and the Bible describes not only his faith but also everything that in no way fits with it. But Abraham's righteousness became not the fulfillment of all ritual prescriptions, but unconditional trust. Paul calls believers sons of Abraham. Not distant descendants, but the next generation. This means that we inherit Abraham's basic traits if we believe. Yes, sin is still strong in us. But faith in God, whom we serve, for whose sake each time we fall we rise again, with whom we continue to live, this faith will become our justification.