# 46 2022 Dev. Ge.13:3-4 Abram called on the name of the Lord! Read all of Ch.13 first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s story. How will it affect yours? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ge. 13:3 “From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.”
Ge.13 Abram leaves Egypt and goes back to Canaan. He had grown rich as well as those with him, Lot and company. The Land was not able to support their livestock.
Vs.1-4 Abram lived in a place where false religion was practiced, God told him to get away from his home and led him to Canaan, where, as a stranger, he could practice worship as he inherited from Noah, who also built an altar to the Lord and sacrificed to God some of the clean animals the day he came out of the ark. In Abram’s plan to go to Egypt to find food in the famine they were experiencing, Abram became rich, foreshadowing the events at the Exodus.
Vs.5-7 Abram and Lot had too many herds causing conflict of grazing and water issues. There were other people living there as well.
Vs.8-9 Here Abram shows his true convictions, that God would take care of him. He tells Lot to choose, if right I’ll go left, if left I’ll go right. Abraham seeks peace.
Vs.10-13 Lot made a selfish choice, he moved east to the well watered plain of the Jorden. What looks good is often not good, good for his flock but not good for him, as it turned out, the wickedness of the place put him at risk and he lost it all.
Vs.14-17 God was pleased with Abram’s choice, “all this land that you see I will give to your descendants.” Although Sari was barren, God said: “I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. Walk thought the length and breath of the land.” All Christians are Abram’s spiritual children.
Vs.18 So Abram lived at Hebron near the great trees of Mamre. Mamre was a chieftain who along with his two brothers were allied with Abram, they were with Abram when he rescued Lot. What is important here is that Abram built an altar to the Lord. Abram continued to worship God in the way passed down from Noah. Are we doing that today? Are we worshiping like our forefathers? Think about that!
Heavenhigh 