Today’s Reading: Genesis 12; Genesis 13; Genesis 14; Luke 5
Scripture: Genesis 12
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
2 "I will make you into a great nation
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you."
Observation: God picks Abraham (aka Abram). Why God selects Abraham to be the one through whom the covenant comes is debatable. But there is one thing I noticed from yesterday's reading. It is that for the first time in the Bible we are told that someone is barren, that is, unable to bear children. "The name of Abram's wife was Sarai... Now Sarai was barren; she had no children." (Genesis 11:29-30) And after this fact is shared, God chooses Abraham.
Application: I think that God loves lost causes. He picks Abraham specifically because Sarai (aka Sarah) is barren. Talk about your negative terms: barren. It sounds lonely, desolate, and forsaken. And to make matters worse, Abram and Sarai are well past their childbearing years. So God says, "Hmmm, who should I pick? Who would be best to be the father of the faithful? Oh, here's the perfect choice, Abram, he and his wife can't have kids. That's perfect!" When the scripture says, "God's ways are not our ways," it knows what it's talking about.
Bottom line: When we are hopeless in our own abilities, resources, or methods, we are prime candidates for God to move in and do his thing, demonstrating his power and might to overcome the impossible.
Prayer: Thanks you, Lord, that you routinely use the hopeless to accomplish the impossible. I guess that means you can use me. I ask you to use me, Lord. I trust in you.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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