On this second Sunday in Lent, Melissa preached from Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 and Romans 4:13-25, focusing on the story of Abram.
Way before Moses gives those laws on the tablets, Abram is righteous before there’s a temple to sacrifice things in. Even before circumcision. And that’s really important, especially for us, because most of us are not obligated to the 613 laws of the Torah like our Jewish siblings. The only reason that we’re here? The only reason at all is that we have faith in the same God. And the same story. Somehow this promise, this miracle, has overflowed to us.
In Abram’s wilderness story we meet a God for whom everything has been stripped away.
A God who places herself in the hands of people. A God who puts himself on the line. And one day when the time is right, that God will make a life fully on earth. One day when the time is right Jesus will come and will take upon the cross all the promises that we could not keep. Jesus will live, die and rise again to keep God’s promise to us.
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