Read Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
When
Abram was 99 years old, the Lord
appeared to him and said, “I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is
right. 2I will make my covenant with you and give you many
descendants.” 3Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground,
and God said, 4“I make this covenant with you: I promise that you
will be the ancestor of many nations. 5Your name will no longer
be Abram, but Abraham,n because I am making you the ancestor
of many nations. 6I will give you many descendants, and some of them
will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
7 “I
will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an
everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
15 God
said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name
is Sarah.o
16I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless
her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among
her descendants.”
17 Abraham
bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he
thought, “Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have
a child at ninety?”
Think
Abraham is called out of his
homeland to start a new nation. Through
this nation the world will come to know about the goodness of God.
Abraham submits to God
(bowing down with his face touching the ground) through this submission the
world may be blessed.
Pray
Lord, thank you for Abraham
who bows down to you - and is lifted up to be blessed by you. Help me to bow down so that you may bless the
world through me.
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