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THE PROMISE Part 3

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“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”            Genesis 12:3 NIV

 

Here is what the Lord says to each pilgrim in the life of faith: “If you will leave your country, your family, and your father’s house, I will make you into the kind of person, who will affect every life you touch for better or for worse. They will bless you, or they will curse you.” Surely this is what Paul means in 2 Corinthians 2:15-16, “For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?” (NIV) This is our Lord’s design for us as His children. Our lives will be vital with that vitality that our Lord Himself possesses. Then all the families of earth will be blessed through us. Our Lord can take any of us and touch the world in some sense through us. This is a vast and marvellous promise, is it not? Perhaps now we can see that in these brief words to Abram of old, our Lord has encompassed truth about life that is written in the pages of Romans, Ephesians, Galatians, and Corinthians, in all the New Testament. It includes all that the Lord offers to do in us through Jesus Christ, in the power and ministry of His indwelling Holy Spirit. Abram was to do nothing except obey; the Lord would do everything else. If Abram would but set his face toward the land, leaving the old things behind, the Lord would do the rest. The same is true for us.

 

PRAYER THOUGHT

Lord Jesus, as we obey You, use us to be a blessing to others.

 

PRAYER FOR TODAY

Lord, as Abraham obeyed You in leaving, trusting You to do the rest. Help us through Your indwelling Holy Spirit to do the same, and so be a blessing to others. AMEN

 

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