Genesis 12

“Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you” (v1).  Abram could have stayed in Haran and built his own little kingdom, but instead he answered God’s radical command with obedience.  He believed God’s promise: “I will make of you a great nation … and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (v2-3).  He saw nothing visible to give him proof; he simply acted on God’s word.

Abram wasn’t perfect, and in Egypt he gave in to fear (v11-20).  But he left behind security and a predictable future in order to follow God’s voice.