Pack Your Bags!

What a weekend! The Bronx Bethany community was blessed with a return visit from Reverend David Slinger and his family, who came to us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa. Pastor David was the guest speaker for all four of our weekend services.

Pastor David spoke on a passage that is familiar to many of us: Genesis chapter 12:1-5, in which we find the account of the call of Abram. For today, let us take time to re-read the verses:

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing. I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.” So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.) And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

• "Go out from your country... then I will make you into a great nation": Do you think Abram would have received the promise if he had not obeyed God's command to go? Why or why not?
• Is there something the Lord has asked you to go and do? Have you obeyed Him?