Contemplative Bible Reading

Genesis 12:1, 4b (New Living Translation)

1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. … 4b Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

God is speaking to Abram; God will later rename him Abraham.

God’s instruction is simple, “Leave.” Go to another land. Leave your relatives. It is time for you to go your own way and make your own legacy.

And Abram was 75 years old. Are you kidding? At age 75, pick up and leave? Start all over again? At 75? Crazy, right?

Abram did as God told him. Once again, followers of God do things that just don’t make any sense. Faith is sort of that way. Go ahead. Follow God. Yeah, but. No. Go head. Follow God.