Song # 1038.1 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. In the Book of Genesis we read in chapter 12 that Abram was called by God to go to Canaan.
The Lord had said to Abram “Leave your country, your people and your father’s house-hold and go to the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2). “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3). So Abram left, as the Lord told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran (Genesis 12:4). He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had aquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there (Genesis 12:5). Abram travelled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land (Genesis 12:6). The Lord appeared to Abram and said “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him (Genesis 12:7). From there he went on towards the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord (Genesis 12:8).
In chapter 17 when Abram was ninety nine years old, we see that the Lord changed Abram’s name to Abraham (Genesis 17:5), and his wife’s name from Sarai to Sarah (Genesis 17:15).
Thought for today: let God’s word fill your mind, rule your heart, and lead your way.
Thought for the future: only one Saviour has an empty grave. Jesus knows the way to heaven, so follow Him for life. Where will you spend your eternity?