Making models can be great fun. Models can also serve a useful purpose – letting us see in small scale what a building or a bridge or a ship will be like. The Bible offers us models of faith – people who show us what it means to trust in God. Abraham is singled out as a prototype believer – God’s promise to him was impossible in human terms but he had the vision of faith to see that God could be trusted to do the impossible. With Abraham as our model we can trust in the God who raised Jesus from the dead.