Tuesday
Read Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
15 After this, Abram
had a vision and heard the Lord
say to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give
you a great reward.”
2 But Abram answered,
“Sovereign Lord, what good will
your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of
Damascus.j 3You have given me no children, and one of my
slaves will inherit my property.”
4 Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: “This slave
Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir.” 5The
Lord took him outside and said,
“Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants
as that.”
6 Abram put his trust in the
Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted
him.
7 Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in
Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
8 But Abram asked,
“Sovereign Lord, how can I know
that it will be mine?”
9 He answered, “Bring me a
cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the
halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds. 11Vultures
came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12 When the sun was going
down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
17 When the sun had set and
it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and
passed between the pieces of the animals. 18Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He
said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of
Egypt to the River Euphrates,
Think
After Abraham defeated Sodom he took none of the plunder. Because of this God promised: "I will
shield you from danger and give you a great reward..."
Abraham trusts God with his life and his livelihood.
Pray
Lord help me to trust you like Abraham did.
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