And What Reason Is That
Thursday, October 9, 2025
That God Would Bless Us?
The Spirit Works Where God Wills
Genesis 12:1-3
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. 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. 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.”
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Galatians 3:9
For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.
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Words of Grace for Today –
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God calls and says “Go!”
God promises a great nation, blessings to be blessings to all.
And Abram and Sarai, go, and manipulate, cheat, and lie their way to wealth, security, and fame (or infamy to their victims). But they cannot make a great nation, starting with a family unless God blesses them with a child, and for that …
well they are humbled, most humbled. They cannot do it on their own.
Late in life, they finally have a child, and the rest is history.
A history of a nation growing and strong, then corrupted and overrun, and reestablished but still weak, then dispersed across the earth, and oppressed, killed and driven out.
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Do we want to join that family?
Maybe not so much, eh!
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Yet, by baptism into Jesus, the Christ, we are made a part of that family of God, a family larger than just Abraham’s blood descendants. A family bound together by the fire-wind-spirit of God, pouring gifts upon us all
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all so that we can be blessings to others.
And how are we brought into this family? Do we do what is right and good and just and earn our way in. Not on your life.
We, like Abraham and Sarah, can do nothing, except wait for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to bring us home, into the family of God.
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For this reason, namely, that we are saved not by our works, not by our own hands, not by our own hearts or minds; that we are saved by faith given to us by God;
for this humble reason, that we do none of it on our own, that God must do it all for us.
For this reason, this humbling reason, we are blessed
not for our benefit
but that we can be a blessing to others, many times over.