'Faith's task is to join hands with the past and future to hold down God's will in the present. The present moment is the disputed territory for faith, a no-man's land between past and future, ground either to be seized by obedience or lost to disobedience. Visionary faith stakes out its possession of land and does so with energy and enthusiasm that comes from its knowledge of what the reclaimed land will one day be.'
Os Guiness, God in the Dark, p.201.
