Week 31, Day 5: My sister

Today’s Reading:  Genesis 20:1-20

Some thoughts from the reading…

Chapter 20 is one of those accounts where it just doesn’t make sense what Abraham does.  Abraham moves to the area of the Negev (southern Palestine) and once again tells people that Sarah is his sister.  I understand his reasoning but God has already promised him to be a shield to him, Gen 15:1.  So why this fear that the people will kill him and take his wife?  What I take from this chapter is that everyone has struggles.  Abraham had this fear of people seeing Sarah and killing him to get her.  He did not trust that God would keep these things from happening.  Abraham had already had a similar thing happen in Egypt but again he is coming into a new area where he does not know if they fear God.  You can imagine how intimidating it would be to come to an area and not know anything about the people and here you have a very beautiful wife.  So I can understand the fear but not his actions.  But I think that when you put it into the perspective that we each have fears or things that we struggle with it could make more sense.  Perhaps this fear was Abraham’s shortcoming that he had to overcome in the future.  He had to learn to trust that God would not leave him exposed to harm and unprotected. 

Let us remember this when we find areas of our lives where we struggle with uncertainty or fear.  God is greater than anything in this life and even if the enemy takes our life, we must hold to doing what is right in God’s sight.  They can harm the body but cannot harm the soul as long as we are true to God, Matt 10:28.

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