After Abram witnessed God’s hand of protection in battle, the Lord comes to Abram in a vision to reassure him of promises made. Abram, having faith in God, feels some distress: He believes in God’s promises, and yet the circumstances before him ran antithetical to what God had said would take place. God provides Abram a sign of assurance, and Abram continues in his pilgrim faith. And it is this very faith in the promise-making God Who would bless all nations through his Offspring, namely Jesus, that is reckoned as righteousness to Abram.