Advent · Day 4 · Wednesday, December 2
Blessed to be a blessing
Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make a great nation of you. I will bless you and give you a great name, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who scorns you I will curse. Through you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
God tells an old man with no children to leave home for a land he has not seen. Then he makes promises that sound impossible: a great nation, a great name, and a blessing for every family on earth.
Abram goes. He does not know the way. He knows the one who called him.
Matthew starts his Gospel by calling Jesus “the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). The blessing God promised to all the families of the earth comes through Abraham’s line, in a baby born in Bethlehem. Your family is one of those families.
Pray
Faithful God, you kept your word to Abraham. Bless my family through Jesus, and make us a blessing to the people around us. Amen.
Carry it today
Who could you be a blessing to this week?