Today, I am reading and commenting on Genesis 12-15.

This passage begins with God telling Abram that He will bless him.  I recently took the Kairos course from Simply Mobilizing, which endeavors to inculcate a dedication to missions in all members of Christ’s Church.  One of the foundational points it references is this blessing which God gave to Abram.  God tells Abram the following, “…I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.”  The point they made is that God blessed Abram so that he could be a blessing to others.  The same is true of us.  The purpose of every blessing which God gives us is so that we might be a blessing for others.  When I started writing I planned to write about this and about the end of the passage where God made a covenant with Abram, but wasn’t sure what I was going to write.  When God made the covenant with Abram He told him that his descendants would be sojourners in a land which was not there and would come back to the land which God promised Abram for his descendants, “for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”  Interestingly, the name of the course which made me notice that Abram was blessed in order to be a blessing to others was “Kairos”.  Kairos is the Greek word which means “the critical time”.  The kairos is the proper time for action.  So, God was telling Abram that his descendants would come back to the Land of Canaan and conquer it at the proper time, at the time when the wickedness of the people currently living in the land could no longer be overlooked.  Reading this in the context of Abram, and his descendants, being blessed so that they could bless others, God was promising Abram that his descendants would conquer the land when they could bring the greatest blessing to those living in the land who were not wicked.  In the same way, God blesses us at the time and place where we can bless others.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.