Abram Called and Blessed

Covenant with God

Called into Covenant with God

God's Covenant with Abraham

Genesis 12:1-3 The Message

Abram and Sarai

12 God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.
2-3 I’ll make you a great nation
        and bless you.
    I’ll make you famous;
        you’ll be a blessing.
    I’ll bless those who bless you;
        those who curse you I’ll curse.
    All the families of the Earth
        will be blessed through you.”

For Reflection Pray

It is significant, I think, that God so often singles out ordinary people to become extraordinary confederates.  So it is with Abram.  He and his wife living somewhat barren lives have been selected to be the source of the chosen people and God's greatest gift to humankind. God gives these two unlikely people and all of humanity the promise of hope, of protection, of comfort, of joy, and of a fearless existence.  God makes a promise that will make all barren places teem with abundance.  God will do this for you too.

Pray

Pray that you will trust in God's promise.  Pray so that you will find all of that which you deem barren full of life in the fulfillment of God's will for humankind.