In His Time, Not Ours...
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding...Proverbs 3:5
Continuing my Bible study in Genesis I come to chapter 15 where we see Abram is now 85 years old. He has been waiting since he was 75 for God to bless him with children as he was promised.
Now, the Word of the Lord comes to Abram in a vision.
The Lord says, "Do not be afraid Abram, I am your Shield, your very great reward".
But Abram asks again about being childless. God shows Abram much understanding and tells Abram He will have a flesh and blood son and showed him the stars and told him that his descendants would be to many to count as are the stars. Abram believe the Lord.
Then the Lord told Abram he would inherent this promised land and Abram questioned the Lord again.
Again the Lord showed understanding and tells Abram to bring a specific sacrifice to the altar then puts him in a deep sleep and spoke to Abram telling him what his descendants were going to go through before they would be delivered and be able to inherit what he was promised. When he awoke a torch passed through the halves of slaughtered animals as a sign of a covenant to Abram giving his descendants land.
It is interesting to see in 15:1 that God says He is our Reward. All that He is and all that comes with Him is Great and by Faith we receive it!
Abram, needs assurance and God, with great understanding, gave it to him by giving him a vision and a covenant. Abram had to wait patently for things to happen to receive his reward, as do we. But be assured we too can receive our reward.
God is an Awesome God, He is our Great Reward! What more could we want!
Have a blessed week y'all!
Deb B
The Crafting Fool
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