Abraham, Sarai, and the Lot in Canaan

God Destroys and Recreates

God Is Always Working

Genesis 12:5-9 The Message

4-6 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.
Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.
7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
8 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God.
9 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.

For Reflection

Abram amassed much land and wealth. He never lost sight of his relationship with the Creator and influenced many conversions to the One God. As he and his household began the 300 mile trip to Canaan, they acquired the name Hebrew (the passer over) after conquering a problematic Euphrates river crossing.

Abram was guided only by the hope derived from his commitment to his Creator. He has no idea of the dangers which had lain before him or of the sufferings of the journey to which he subjected his household.
Pray
Pray so that you do as Abram did: leave Haran and its idols behind. Pray so that you can forsake the temporal and reside in the presence of God


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