Genesis 12:1–4a (NRSV)
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Chapter 12Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. Verse 2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. Verse 3I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Verse 4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Devotion
Abram heard a voice calling to him. It said he should go to a land about which he knew nothing. There he would become the father of a great nation. So, he goes into the unknown. His obedience to the voice is astonishing. Who of us would have the courage and faith to make such a journey into the unknown? He knows that he and Sarai are past the age of childbearing and yet he believes enough to take the first step and then the second. Suddenly he is in the new land the voice has promised him. It is strange and difficult. Faith is always a leap into the unknown, but we can do so because we trust our God is with us.
Prayer
O God, we thank you for the witness of Abraham and Sarah. Give us the faith to go forth into the future with confidence in your guiding light. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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