God's Method to Fulfill His Promise

God is always faithful to fulfill His promises. He can bring them about in our life in any way He sees fit to do so. He is sovereign, and His way is always best. In God's covenant with Abraham He promised that He would make Abraham into a great nation and that all the nations of the world would be blessed through him. (Genesis 18:18,19) That is an amazing promise that we might think God would answer in a completely supernatural way. However, God chose Abraham so he could command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. That was God's way to fulfill to Abraham what He had promised. Let's let this truth sink in well. There is a powerful lesson here for all of us.

God knew Abraham very well. That is why He chose Him, and He chose to make such a powerful covenant with Him and His descendants. God knew that Abraham had a heart of faith. He knew He could count on Abraham to live according to His ways. God also knew that Abraham would command his children and his house to keep the way of the Lord. Then, because of their faithfulness to God down through the ages, God could send Jesus as a descendant of Abraham to be a blessing to all the nations of the world. Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph who were from a long line of faithful believers extending back to Abraham himself. I believe this is how God fulfills some of His promises to us, too. When God promises to bless us, He can do that because we are faithful to Him, and we are teaching our children and our whole house to keep the laws and ways of the Lord. Therefore, the question for us is, "Will God be able to do that through us? Will we be faithful to God ourselves, and we will we be diligent to raise our children in His ways?" The answer to those questions could determine whether God gets to bless us and our families the way He desires. I pray we will be faithful like Abraham.

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Tomorrow, I intend to read Genesis 20-23.