With God’s call of Abram, we now see the beginning of God’s people. God promises to give Abram a place, protection, and progeny. However, the greatest promise is that God will bless all the families of the earth through him!
Galatians 3:8-9 “The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, ‘In you all the nations will be blessed.’ So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.”
Although a heralded man of faith and obedience (Hebrews 11:8-10), Abram also felt fear. God protected him when he misled others about his wife, but we shouldn’t misread that situation. In protecting Abram, God was protecting His own promise (“I will make you into a great nation”). God doesn’t always promise to protect us from our own fear and stupidity. Although used mightily, most of the patriarch’s lives reveal significant flaws in their walks with God. I think that should give us hope. God can still work in our lives when we aren’t perfect.
Thought for the day: Even when you fall or fail, God is there to pick you up and he is still willing to use you!
Micah 7:8 “Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.”
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