God makes a covenant with Abram (Genesis 12: 1-3)

The LORD said to Abram:

Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and a blessing to others. I will bless anyone who blesses you, but I will put a curse on anyone who puts a curse on you. Everyone on earth will be blessed because of you.

Up until now, God already established that man would rule over earth for him, but Adam and Noah were not the ones who will be the Savior promised in Genesis 3:15. This does not void God's promise of individual rule by man for God, but it postpones it to be ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Now God turns to a Chosen People, a nation who he will call his own. They will in turn mediate God's blessings to all nations and all nations will be blessed by them. God appoints Abram, later renamed by God Abraham to be the father of this great nation who is to be the nation of Israel. This agreement with Abraham is called a covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant is a unilateral promise by God which means it only depends on God to fulfill. This agreement will pass generationally until the coming of Messiah. Did you notice what God did in order to prepare Abraham for his calling by God? God took him away from everything that is familiar to him. He took him from his father and family and his land. God took him to a place that he would show him and there he will fulfill his great promises to Abraham. I'm sure the reason for this is Abraham's family is a hindrance to God. By bringing him to Canaan, he was able to test his faith which would be interfered with if he was influenced by his family.

Daily Prayer: Father, I realize that you have made great promises to Abraham who is the father of Israel. In my time too, you have made great promises. In the fullness of time you sent your son who is Jesus Christ. Through him and his redeeming work on the cross, the nations are heir to the spiritual blessings given to Abraham. It is not the physical promises given them, but the spiritual ones that we are blessed by today. Let me now go and tell others so that they can, like Abraham, come and seize these promises of redemption by faith in Jesus Christ who is your representative and my Savior. In Jesus name I pray Amen.