“To Your Offspring I Will Give This Land”

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Genesis 12:4-9

One of the heroes of our faith spent over 100 years moving around and living in tents. When Abraham was seventy five years old he heard God’s call to leave his country so the Lord could make him into a new nation.

Like Abraham, when the wind whips our flimsy covering or the rain soaks through, we can look with faith for the city to come, whose “architect and builder is God.” And like Abraham . we can find hope that God is working to renew His creation, preparing a “better country – a heavenly one” to come.

God gives us a solid foundation for our lives.

Our Daily Bread – September 24, 2017