The promise
God said, “I will make of you a great nation… so that you will be a blessing…. To your offspring I will give this land.” —Genesis 12.2, 7Oh, we love the part about being great.We forget the part about being a blessing.And we fight about the land.We want “great” to mean might. Dominance.What if it meant extraordinary, like a great artist? We’d be a people who are remarkably wise and beautiful, who are uniquely faithful and loving amidst war and conflict.We seize the promise of land,and seize the land from others,which can only lead to war.What if we thought of whatever land…
The skinny
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