JOURNEYING WITH GOD
Genesis 12
“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. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
We cannot claim for ourselves this promise and commitment that God gave to Abram; it is his name that will be great, his seed that will become a great nation, and God pledges to love him as his own.
We are, however, his spiritual descendents through Jesus, who is a direct descendent of Abram. We are among those blessed through Abram. What we can claim for ourselves is God himself, who, in a new promise sealed with the blood of Jesus, had pledged to love us as his own. He is the same God who unequivocally chose to bless Abram, holding back nothing.
In accepting God’s offer, Abram held back nothing as well. He understood that this is a journey that he is not intended to return from. He was going to pitch his tent in the richness of God’s intent and so he brought along all that was his.
This is what it means to journey with God.
“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.”