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Waiting on God's Promise

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Reflection Questions

1. Think of a time when you waited on somebody to make good on a promise. What was that like for you mentally, emotionally, relationally, etc?

2. The promise God makes to Abram and Sarai in Genesis 12 includes the creation of a group of people, the gift of a wonderful place to cal their home, and the experience of the presence of God. How do those elements of the promise tap into our longings as human beings?

3. One of the key lessons we learn is that Abram and Sarai are called to move before they can begin experiencing God's promise. Can you think of a way that God might be calling you to move (towards a person, towards the bettering of the place where you live, towards his presence)?

4. Over and over again in the story of Abram and Sarai, we see them finding trouble when they stop trusting God for the fulfillment of the promise and take matters into their own hands. What kinds of things are you tempted to do when fear begins to overwhelm your trust in God?

5. Ultimately, we see that God comes to the rescue and keeps the promise alive despite the failings of Abram and Sarai. As you consider God's merciful rescue and His preservation of the promise, what response does that create in you?

6. In the season of Advent, we look back to the first coming of Jesus and look ahead to the second coming of Jesus. Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus is the foundation of the promise and the guarantee that God is indeed gathering a perfected people in a perfected place to be with Him. How does this guarantee change your outlook during the waiting we experience in this life?

Genesis 12

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. 2 And 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. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.


FOOTNOTES

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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Reflection Questions

1. Think of a time when you waited on somebody to make good on a promise. What was that like for you mentally, emotionally, relationally, etc?

2. The promise God makes to Abram and Sarai in Genesis 12 includes the creation of a group of people, the gift of a wonderful place to cal their home, and the experience of the presence of God. How do those elements of the promise tap into our longings as human beings?

3. One of the key lessons we learn is that Abram and Sarai are called to move before they can begin experiencing God's promise. Can you think of a way that God might be calling you to move (towards a person, towards the bettering of the place where you live, towards his presence)?

4. Over and over again in the story of Abram and Sarai, we see them finding trouble when they stop trusting God for the fulfillment of the promise and take matters into their own hands. What kinds of things are you tempted to do when fear begins to overwhelm your trust in God?

5. Ultimately, we see that God comes to the rescue and keeps the promise alive despite the failings of Abram and Sarai. As you consider God's merciful rescue and His preservation of the promise, what response does that create in you?

6. In the season of Advent, we look back to the first coming of Jesus and look ahead to the second coming of Jesus. Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus is the foundation of the promise and the guarantee that God is indeed gathering a perfected people in a perfected place to be with Him. How does this guarantee change your outlook during the waiting we experience in this life?

Genesis 12

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. 2 And 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. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.


FOOTNOTES

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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