Monday, April 25, 2011

God's Story - Promise

The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father' family, and go to the land that I will show you.  (2)  I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.  (3)  I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you."  Genesis 12:1-3 NLT 

PROMISE

God created a perfect world for us and a special Garden for mankind to live in.  In this Garden all our needs are met, and mankind experience ideal relationship with one another and with God.

But God gave us a choice - did they want to be with Him or against Him (Don't eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil/Do eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil).  We all make the same choice as Adam an Eve at one time or another in life and we fall from God's standard.

The reason I like this passage from Genesis 12, is that inspite of the fact that Adam and Eve and all of their descendants (us) blew it, God, out of an indescribable love, made a PROMISE to Abraham that includes us today.  He promised him many things but at the end of the list the last promise is that all the families on earth will be blessed through him (Abraham).

For the next couple thousand years until Christ, people had hope because of this promise to Abraham.  Today we still have hope because this promise has been fulfilled through Jesus.  Jesus is a direct descendant of Abraham and through what He did on the cross the gift of salvation, of being reconciled to God back to His original design, has been opened up to all of us.

About 9 years ago,  I first saw that this promise to Abraham included me and that its fulfillment came through Christ, I was just in total awe.  God put His provision for our sinning against Him into process over 2000 years before Jesus came to earth as a baby, and nearly 4000 years before I was even a thought!

Adam and Eve and all who followed turned against God.  He leaves them to suffer the consequences of their sin, but not without hope... a PROMISE of what is to come!

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