Genesis 12

God picked and chose Abram and called him to become the blessed father of believers in the True God (V 1-3).

Abram responded positively to God's call and journeyed in faith unto God. Besides his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, whose father Haran had passed away, followed him too in this journey of faith (V 4-9).

Abram's faith would be tested through a famine in the land he dwelt in. He would demonstrate some weakness in his faith when he went down to Egypt to escape the famine. He acted selfishly trying to protect his own personal life even at the cost of his total integrity and risking the very life of his beautiful wife (V 10-16). Note that Sarah was very beautiful at sixty-five years old! What a divine blessing upon her!


But God the Sovereign One who knows every motive of each heart and soul intervened to protect Sarai (and the promised seed of the Messiah Jesus Christ!) through whom would be born miraculously the baby Isaac later... Through the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... would the Messiah be born eventually in due and perfect timing of God  (V 17-20).

How gracious is Our God to watch and protect us when we make mistakes like Abram did in Egypt. What a spiritual lesson to Abram and to us too!