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Daily Thought for: 17th January
ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD
Genesis 24; 25. 1-11
Abram started his life as a member of a family of idolaters, and ended
his life leading a family of believers. He had forsaken the comfortable
and settled life of a house and a city, and had lived the rest of his life
in a tent, eventually with Isaac and Jacob, his co-heirs of the same promise,
because ‘he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God’, Heb. 11. 10. His life-style matched his faith, just as ours
should. He started life as Abram—‘exalted father’, no doubt a distinguished
name given to him by his parents, but he ended his life as Abraham, ‘father
of a multitude’, as given to him by God, Gen. 17. 5. This was a name of
faith and promise, best suited to his life.
One of Abraham’s last acts was to make arrangements for a bride for his
son. Being old, he entrusted the task to his servant, Gen. 24. 2. He was
insistent that he was not to take Isaac back to Chaldea, which is in favourable
contrast to the careless way he took Lot to Egypt, to see things he should
not have seen.
Abraham ended his life by giving ‘all that he had to Isaac’, 25. 5, and
died at 175 years of age. He went to heaven, as we know later from the
Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 16. 22. After he had died, God regularly acknowledged
that He was the God of Abraham (17 times in all), and that He was not ashamed
to be called his God, Heb. 11. 16. Furthermore, Abraham was subsequently
called ‘the friend of God’ on a number of occasions in Scripture, 2 Chr.
20. 7; Isa. 41. 8; Jas. 2. 23.
There are aspects of Abraham’s life that we only learn of in the New Testament,
for instance the Lord Jesus told the Jews that ‘your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad’, John 8. 56. Then also we learn
that the reason why he was prepared to offer Isaac was that he was ‘accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead’, Heb. 11. 19—such
faith!
Abraham had every encouragement from God, but so little help and encouragement
from others, even his own family. Let us seek to follow his life of faith
in spite of all.
Daily Thought for: 17th January
ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD
Genesis 24; 25. 1-11
Abram started his life as a member of a family of idolaters, and ended
his life leading a family of believers. He had forsaken the comfortable
and settled life of a house and a city, and had lived the rest of his life
in a tent, eventually with Isaac and Jacob, his co-heirs of the same promise,
because ‘he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God’, Heb. 11. 10. His life-style matched his faith, just as ours
should. He started life as Abram—‘exalted father’, no doubt a distinguished
name given to him by his parents, but he ended his life as Abraham, ‘father
of a multitude’, as given to him by God, Gen. 17. 5. This was a name of
faith and promise, best suited to his life.
One of Abraham’s last acts was to make arrangements for a bride for his
son. Being old, he entrusted the task to his servant, Gen. 24. 2. He was
insistent that he was not to take Isaac back to Chaldea, which is in favourable
contrast to the careless way he took Lot to Egypt, to see things he should
not have seen.
Abraham ended his life by giving ‘all that he had to Isaac’, 25. 5, and
died at 175 years of age. He went to heaven, as we know later from the
Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 16. 22. After he had died, God regularly acknowledged
that He was the God of Abraham (17 times in all), and that He was not ashamed
to be called his God, Heb. 11. 16. Furthermore, Abraham was subsequently
called ‘the friend of God’ on a number of occasions in Scripture, 2 Chr.
20. 7; Isa. 41. 8; Jas. 2. 23.
There are aspects of Abraham’s life that we only learn of in the New Testament,
for instance the Lord Jesus told the Jews that ‘your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad’, John 8. 56. Then also we learn
that the reason why he was prepared to offer Isaac was that he was ‘accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead’, Heb. 11. 19—such
faith!
Abraham had every encouragement from God, but so little help and encouragement
from others, even his own family. Let us seek to follow his life of faith
in spite of all.
Daily Thought for: 17th January
ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD
Genesis 24; 25. 1-11
Abram started his life as a member of a family of idolaters, and ended
his life leading a family of believers. He had forsaken the comfortable
and settled life of a house and a city, and had lived the rest of his life
in a tent, eventually with Isaac and Jacob, his co-heirs of the same promise,
because ‘he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and
maker is God’, Heb. 11. 10. His life-style matched his faith, just as ours
should. He started life as Abram—‘exalted father’, no doubt a distinguished
name given to him by his parents, but he ended his life as Abraham, ‘father
of a multitude’, as given to him by God, Gen. 17. 5. This was a name of
faith and promise, best suited to his life.
One of Abraham’s last acts was to make arrangements for a bride for his
son. Being old, he entrusted the task to his servant, Gen. 24. 2. He was
insistent that he was not to take Isaac back to Chaldea, which is in favourable
contrast to the careless way he took Lot to Egypt, to see things he should
not have seen.
Abraham ended his life by giving ‘all that he had to Isaac’, 25. 5, and
died at 175 years of age. He went to heaven, as we know later from the
Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 16. 22. After he had died, God regularly acknowledged
that He was the God of Abraham (17 times in all), and that He was not ashamed
to be called his God, Heb. 11. 16. Furthermore, Abraham was subsequently
called ‘the friend of God’ on a number of occasions in Scripture, 2 Chr.
20. 7; Isa. 41. 8; Jas. 2. 23.
There are aspects of Abraham’s life that we only learn of in the New Testament,
for instance the Lord Jesus told the Jews that ‘your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad’, John 8. 56. Then also we learn
that the reason why he was prepared to offer Isaac was that he was ‘accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead’, Heb. 11. 19—such
faith!
Abraham had every encouragement from God, but so little help and encouragement
from others, even his own family. Let us seek to follow his life of faith
in spite of all.
