Genesis 12:1-3
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. 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. 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.”
God’s plan would continue to unfold through promise. He revealed that a great nation would descend from Abraham. From one, a multitude. But there was an even greater promise in this covenant: the promise that through this nation, every family on earth would be blessed.
From America to Afghanistan. From Canada to Columbia. From the Netherlands to New Zealand.
God gave a national promise with international significance, understanding that one day in nations all around the world, families would gather together to celebrate a child born into Abraham’s nation, a child who would make a multitude one, who would erase borders and barriers, through whom there would be neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
- Galatians 3:13-14
