The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Genesis 15:12-16,
“As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
This was the Lord’s response to Abram when Abram questioned the Lord as to how he could know the Lord was going to give him the land the Lord had promised and brought him to. The Lord’s response is that Abram’s descendants would be in a country not their own for 400 years and even be mistreated in it. The Lord tells Abram that after he has passed away his descendants will come out of that country, Egypt, and take possession of the land of Canaan. It wouldn’t be his land in his lifetime here – yet the Lord says he will give it to him.
James tells us that Abram was called God’s friend, James 2:23. Yet the promise of the land the Lord had made to Abram was not something Abram would enjoy in his lifetime here. As we learn throughout the pages of Scripture the Lord will often promise what will not be enjoyed in this life but later. I am reminded that many of the promises made to us through Abraham will not be ours until the resurrection. There are many folks who get confused about when the Lord fulfills certain promises. But whether they are fulfilled in my lifetime today or in the future following my death, they are nonetheless just as certain and just as worthy of all the excitement they should bring to me today!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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