“You Will Be A Blessing”

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD. And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Genesis 12:1-9

When Abraham was called out of Ur to follow God to the Promised Land, he had to leave everything that was familiar to him. Abraham had probably grown attached to the comfort of his home, the variety of food and the fellowship of his friends. Abraham left the familiar to follow God.

When we experience God’s call to another place, it may mean leaving behind the people and the things we love. But when we are obedient to God, He will provide something even more fulfilling at our new destination.

You don’t need to see the way if you follow the One who is the Way.

Our Daily Bread – January 19, 2008