Day Month Year
Abraham
The The Father of Many Nations (Genesis 17:1-8)
So the Abram was renamed to Abraham. “As a guarantee of the fact that the child of the covenant would soon be born, God changes Abrams name. He would no longer be Abram (“exalted father”); he would now be Abraham (“father of many”). So we can see that this rename was as a consequence of the great deal between God Father (father of all), and with Abraham (Father of many). Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead” (Romans 4:19 New International Bible). God's Man Abraham (Genesis 18:1-8)
Who of us, when they are sitting outside your house would call strangers out off the road to stay in their house? I guess no one. Unfortunately, we have different guest mentality and it is much more dangerous today to invite a stranger to your house. But Abraham was not afraid, because he was loved by God, and he knew that he needs to take care of this travelers. Not only by giving them water and some food. But by giving them place to rest, and giving them fresh bread and meat, so they fill restore their energy. He does care about strangers with all the love that God told him to do.
Abraham and his call (Genesis 12)
God told Abraham to go, and he went. The thing about Abraham that when God did told him to do something, he was doing that. To mention one serious thing right now that “It might seem almost unreasonable for God to ask a 75 year old man to leave his home and his relatives and travel to the unknown destination. To build in Abram a willingness to follow his call, God gave Abraham a promise or more accurately, a whole cluster of promises” (Jeske Genesis 119). In addition, the promises for the 75-year old man would be that the savior of all Israel and all people would come out from his nation. And Abraham followed the call of God, since he was a righteous man.
Abraham and His Carnality (Genesis 12)
Canaan land is actually dry land historically. And starvation there were happening quite often So when the famine happened again, Abraham and Sara had made a trip to Egypt. And her the story of Abrahams carnality begins. As for me it was a bit shock to understand that a man who is a lovely husband would say to his wife (who is beautiful) to call herself here sister. Moreover, even more, he deed nothing when Egyptians took her to become a harlot in pharaohs’ harem. This story shows us Abraham’s week heart and that if God would not injure pharaoh with sickness, than Abraham would not do anything. Weak, coward, and not smart man. He thought that God will not protect them, because he is just one more week human.
Abraham And His Child (Genesis 12)
Abraham was childless. And for that God had given him a promise that he will have many, millions of kids. And even more, that from his kids will come out great savior of the world. I can’t imagine the feelings of Abraham when he knew that after many years of living on the sinful earth, and waiting for Savior, to understand that he will be you relative. Great power of God, who had created all the stars. Now when God knows the amount of the stars in the space, he is saying that there will be so many decedents how many stars on the heavens. And so the childless father became a father of millions.
Abraham and His Companion (Genesis 12)
With who deed Abraham left his father’s house? He left with his nephew Lot and with his wife Sarai. And he left not only with these two relatives, but also he took many of his servants with him. We might say that because those servants were fighting for the field for animals to eat. And this is the main thing why he was separated later with Lot, and that was the reason why Lot had gone to the most sinful cities. But now we can see that he had departure with Sarai and Lot.
Abraham And His Covenant (Genesis 12)
Abraham had a deal with God. Actually God influenced by this pact on Abraham. God said to the childless old man, that If he will leave far away to follow everything that God will say to him, than hew will have many millions of decadents, and that he will be under protection of God. Abraham followed the commands of God, and eve more, he was following them without knowing where he is actually going. God made with him a deal, and that was a great deal that will provide Abraham not only with the understanding that God is protecting him, but also that God will send through his seed the messiah, and I guess that was the greatest knowledge that Abraham was happy with.
Abraham And His Crisis
Abraham had many crises. Two times he as giving his wife away to the different kings (and as I Told I am shocked because of that), and also he failed with Sarai in uncertainty about Sarai’s abilities to give a birth to Isaac (otherwise why he would “laid” with her servant?). And even though we can see that God is always forgiving everything that Abraham deed wrong. But even so, this is interesting to analyze sinful human nature, that with even with understanding that God is protecting him, and even he was speaking with angels and God was speaking directly to him, he still maid many mistake. But when God told him to sacrifice Isaac to God, God was checking if Abraham (after so many years of waiting for his son) will follow God command. And Abraham deed what God told him to do. So we can say About Abraham that he was just a normal sinful human being with fear for his life, with some covenant acts, but who is perfect exert of Jesus Christ?
Bibliography
Jeske, John C. Genesis. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 2005. Print.
The Holy Bible: New International Version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005. Print.
