Read Gen. 12:6-20
The Lord is gracious in giving us words of encouragement and vision all throughout our journey through life. We see that in Abraham’s life as God appears to him time and time again to reestablish his covenant with him. God speaks to him again on his travels to tell him that he is giving him the land he is walking through. Abram stopped and built an altar as proof that God had spoken to him at that place and that it was his land. He was marking his territory. God caused Abraham to walk the land that he would one day possess. We do that in our lives through prayer and writing down visitations from God or things that he tells us in a journal.
Abraham chooses to take a detour through Egypt because there is a famine in the land (not a good idea in this case). We have a tendency to want to run from adversity when God may want us to plow right through trials knowing that he will help us. There are some times when God wants us to flee but it should be because he told us to. God told Joseph to take Mary and Jesus into Egypt to flee the king who wanted to kill Jesus. But in Abraham’s case, Egypt was not a good place to be.
When he entered Egypt he told Sarai to tell everyone that she was his sister so they wouldn’t kill him to have her since she was so beautiful. (Remember she was probably in her 80’s at that time.) That very thing happened and they tried to take Sarai for the Pharaoh. When he took her, a plague fell on the house of Pharaoh. Because they feared God, he called Abram in and asked him about her, since the plague came the day he took her. When he found out she was Abram’s wife he sent them all away.
Lord, help us to trust you in the storm and in the peaceful times.
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