Genesis 13:1–13
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a fascinating and instructive moment in the life of Abram. God has called him out of Ur, promised him a land, a seed, and a blessing that would overflow to all nations. But Abram, in a moment of fear, took a detour through Egypt. That detour was a failure of faith, marked by deceit, and yet God in His inscrutable sovereignty brought him out, not only unharmed, but laden with wealth. God's grace can and does operate even in the midst of our foolishness. He can make the wrath of man, and even the cowardice of his own saints, praise Him. But this brings us to a central reality of the Christian life: blessing brings its own set of challenges. Scarcity has its problems, to be sure, but so does abundance. We often pray for God to bless us, to increase our substance, to give us success.