Genesis 16:1–6
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The Christian life is a long obedience in the same direction. But it is also a journey fraught with the temptation to take sanctified shortcuts. We are given glorious promises by God, promises that are as solid as the God who made them. But we are also given a stopwatch, and it seems to us that God's watch and our watch are not synchronized. The space between the promise and the fulfillment is the devil's workshop, and the primary tool he uses there is our own impatience. We come now to a chapter in the life of Abram that is a master class in the folly of good intentions. Abram has received the covenant promise from God Himself. God has sealed this promise with a blood oath, walking through the pieces of the sacrifice, taking the entire curse of the covenant upon Himself.