Genesis 12:10–20
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that worships at the altar of pragmatism. We are told to be practical, to be realistic, to make the smart play. And this mindset has crept into the church like a fog. We justify our little lies, our ethical shortcuts, and our cowardice by telling ourselves that the ends justify the means. We think we can help God out, that His grand, cosmic plan needs our shrewd little schemes to keep it from running into a ditch. It is the quiet assumption that walking by sight is more reliable than walking by faith. It is a profound insult to the sovereignty of God. And if we want to see the father of this particular kind of foolishness, we need look no further than to our father in the faith, Abram. In the verses immediately preceding our text, Abram has just received the most staggering promises ever made to a man.