Advent Day 4 - Abraham - Genesis 12:1-7

When Mr. Steady and I first got married, we lived in a tiny little town way up in the corner of our state, in the middle of nowhere. It was really difficult for me to leave my family and move away from everything that I knew and loved. But I knew it was where God was calling, so I followed my new husband into the wilderness...

And even though that first year was in many ways the toughest so far, I wouldn't go back and change anything about it. I quickly came to realize that my heart and life could not revolve solely around Mr. Steady, because even though a wonderful man, he was just that - a man - and would eventually let me down. But if my heart and mind belonged completely to Christ, I knew I would be in a better place personally, as well as in my marriage. The lessons I learned in that "foreign land" would be ones I carried on into the future and could pass down to my children.

Now, unlike Abraham, I didn't actually leave the country, so I can't even imagine what Abraham went through, and his faith in doing so has always inspired me. Even though he wasn't perfect, I love that Perfection came through him. 

All is Grace, 
Carie

A picture from our engagement photo session during Thanksgiving 2004.
10 years went by like a blink of the eye.

Day 4  -  Abraham  -  Genesis 12:1-7

The Message (MSG)

12 God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.

2-3 I’ll make you a great nation
        and bless you.
    I’ll make you famous;
        you’ll be a blessing.
    I’ll bless those who bless you;
        those who curse you I’ll curse.
    All the families of the Earth
        will be blessed through you.”

4-6 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.

Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.

7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.