This week's reading is from Genesis 12:1 to 17:27.
Here is my little summary of the sections:
Chapter 12: Yahweh calls out Abram. Abram gets in trouble in Egypt, Yahweh intercedes.
Chapter 13: Abram and Lot part ways.
Chapter 14: Abram: rescues Lot from captivity, tithes to Melchizedek, and refuses gifts from Sodomite king.
Chapter 15: Yahweh's covenant with Abram.
Chapter 16: Hagar is mistreated by Sarai, Yahweh intercedes for Hagar.
Chapter 17: Abram becomes Abraham. The covenant of circumcision. Sarai becomes Sarah. Abraham laughs regarding a son that is to be (Sarah laughs in the next chapter).
There really isn't a particular passage I focus on this time;
instead, it's more of a theme.
The theme is waiting, as in Abraham waiting for his promised son.
There are many things in life in which we have to wait, small things, and especially the big ones...
One of my favorite contemporary Christian songs is "Everlasting God" by Chris Tomlin. The song reverberates the passage from Isaiah 40:29-31.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
It's a wonderful passage that speaks of exercising one's faith and trusting in God. Romans 8:28 comes to my mind in this context at the same time...
Waiting. It's not always easy, but...
God is good.
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