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DEVOTION
Promises Kept
When God made His promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for Him to swear by, He swore by Himself, saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.” And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised. – Hebrews 6:13-15
Abraham was promised by God to be the father of a great and mighty nation. This is an amazing promise made more amazing when you look at the facts of the situation. God made this promise to Abraham when he was a 100-year-old man. His wife Sarah was a spry and youthful 90 years old when she finally became pregnant, giving birth to the couple’s one and only son. We add to this amazing story when God tested Abraham’s faith by instructing him to sacrifice his long-awaited heir. But as I meditate on this passage, I am convinced that the most amazing thing about God’s promise was the fact that Abraham died without ever seeing it.
Abraham fathered Isaac who fathered Jacob. Jacob was the father of twelve sons. God used Joseph, one of the twelve sons, to lead Jacob’s entire family to Egypt to survive a severe famine. While there, Jacob’s family could have easily been interspersed into the population of Egypt.
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