GENESIS 12
Now the Lord saidto Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan.
– Genesis 12:1-5
GENESIS 12 ABRAM’S RESPONSE TO GOD’S CALL
A poem inspired by these verses by ILMA
When Abram was seventy-five years of age, God called on him
The Lord wanted him to leave his country and kin to another land
Then God promised Abram a blessing to make his name great
Blessings to those who will honor him and curses to the defiant.
When Terah began his journey with Abram to go to Canaan
It was disrupted when they settled and got comfortable in Haran
But when Terah died, God’s call to Abram to proceed with the trip came
So, Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot and all that they had.
Terah, Abram’s father was from Ur of the Chaldeans, which was a pagan country. In Joshua 24:2, we know that Terah worshipped other gods and did not know the Lord. Somehow without knowing, Terah led his family to leave Ur to proceed to Canaan. It must have been God’s leading him to do so. He got sidetracked when they reached Haran and settled there where he died. It was here when the Lord called Abram to continue the journey to Canaan with a promise to give him a great name and a great nation. Without question, Abram heeded God’s call and believed his promise even though he doesn’t even know where he was going. What a remarkable response Abram gave God.
REFLECTION
- Would you have obeyed God without question when instructed to do something you don’t understand? Why or why not?
