Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 through 3:
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
The ideal that the LORD’s call came to one person and one family out of all the other persons and families of the world seems repugnantly exclusionary and ripe for all kinds of abuse. And, indeed, some Jews and especially many Christians have interpreted this text in all kinds of vile, segregating, and triumphalist ways.
But read the text and we see that the blessing comes to one persons for the sake of blessing all other peoples. “I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing . . . and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
It is not a blessing from God unless and until it is shared. To whom much is given much is required. And the blessing of one who walks the earth must in turn be blessing of all the earth also.
We are reading the Bible together this year. The whole thing! Tomorrow’s Daily Lesson will come from Genesis chapters 16-18.
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