Genesis 12:1-8 (NIV)__________________________________________________________
The Call of Abram
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. "
4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
Recently life has been very hectic for me; the daily work that last from sunrise to sunset, and even through some nights. Many a times, I even feel weak and start to complain to the people around me. Think I'm lost.
This passage reminds me though, that even when Abraham was already seventy-five years old, he still trusted God for directions, and that God will provide a dwelling place for him on earth, and in heaven.
This starts to resonate a feeling of assurance in me that I lost during this period of working life. No matter how hectic life becomes, my God will always provide, always protect. I just need to look to him for provision, and keep my faith.
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