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How did God begin to fulfill His promise?

God began to fulfill His promise by calling Abraham. God promised to bless the world through Abraham and his descendants.

If you’ve read just the first and last chapters of the Bible, then you know that it’s telling a story from “in the beginning” to “forever and ever.” You also learn that from its beginning to its end, the Bible is, in part, about the Jewish people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And, of course, Jesus Himself was Jewish.

Have you ever wondered why is the Bible all about the Jewish people and why is the Savior of the world Jewish? If you don’t get your head around this, it can be difficult to understand the Bible at all. 

The answer goes all the way back to the first book of the Bible, Genesis. In Genesis, we see that Adam and Eve had disobeyed God, and the world became a place of sin and brokenness. You can almost feel all of creation pause to see God’s response to man’s sin. Was He going to give up on the human race, or was He going to rescue it? And if He was going to rescue it, how was He going to do that?

God was going to rescue the world, including broken humanity, through His work with a man named Abraham. Our God loves to call people into relationship with himself and give them promises. So God called Abraham–the forefather of all of the Jewish people–and promised to bless the world through Him.

But that’s not all. The Bible isn’t just a bunch of ancient stories without relevance for our contemporary lives.

The purpose God had for Abraham He now has for us! We are called to be a light to the nations. We are called to be a blessing.

Spend some time in prayer today and ask God to use you in His mission in the world around you.