GOD CALLED ABRAM

Genesis 12:1-9 / Keywords 12:1

GOD CALLED ABRAM

 

1. God called 75 years old Abram (1-3).

When the world after the Babel Tower incident was dark and chaotic, God

began a new history of redemption by calling one old man, Abram. It required

for Abram a painful separation from his people who were idol worshiping and

from his father’s household, his comfort zone. It required going to an unknown

land trusting in God’s guidance alone. If he obeys, God promised him abundant

blessings: to make childless Abram into a great nation, a nameless into a great

man, a hopeless person into a source of the blessing of all nations through the

Messiah, Jesus, his descendant. God is God of hope. He called 75 years old

Abram to be the source of blessing for all generations of the entire world. God is

mighty who can change a dead person into a blessing. He calls each of us from

sin and death with the promise of salvation and blessing too.

 

2. Abram obeyed God’s word (10-20).

How did Abram respond? Abram left, as the Lord had told him. His faith was

based on the word of God and not on his calculation. God also promised to give

him the land, Canaan where Canaanites were already living in. Yet Abram thanked

God, building an altar wherever he went and called God’s name many times. He

took his fatherless cousin, Lot with him too.

 

Prayer Lord, thank you for calling such a worthless and useless sinner like me for

your redemptive history. Let me follow your word giving thanks in all my

pilgrimage.

One Word I will make you into a great nation