After reading half way through Genesis, I am reminded again of God's grace in calling Abram into the redemptive history of humankind. Before Abram was the father of many nations (the meaning of Abraham), before receiving the promise of having a son through his barren wife Sarai, before he became rich and powerful, before he had his own army and before he attempted to offer up Isaac as a human sacrifice to God, Abram receives the promise from God. What did he do to warrant such a blessing?
Gen 12:1-3 records, "Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Is this not God's grace at work in the life of Abram? It is the same grace that found you and me lost and wandering through life not knowing why we exist. This grace of the gospel is a grace that will not leave us the same as it found us. Our identity and disposition will change through the grace offered to us in Jesus Christ. It is a grace that blesses and touches the lives of others. God blessed Abram so that he may be a blessing. In the same way every believer has been saved and given life so that we become the channel of blessing to a dying world. Abraham lived a life that demonstrated God is faithful in fulfilling everything he said he would do. Every Christian is living under the same Abrahamic blessing.
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