I’ve been reading about faith from the faith chapter—Hebrews 11.  When I got to Abraham, my interest was sparked.  Abraham’s faith seemed to be strengthened by his hope in finding a city—a city which has eternal foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Well, I was so captivated by this thought of looking for this city that I decided to expand my study, and also to make a blog post out of it.  I found six passages, each of which gives us a slightly different vision of the city.

1. Abraham’s vision: a place with foundations, unlike his tent (Hebrews 11:8-10). Abraham’s vision of this city, I think, came to him from God by the promise of God that if he would leave his homeland, He would show him to a better land and would make him a great nation and bless him (Gen. 12:1-3). When Abraham got to this…