Narrative Essay On Abram's Destiny

Do you trust in God’s word? Would you keep your promise like God did? God kept his great promise, about where he was going. His prosperity and his descendants. I feel like God had mixed emotions in Genesis between good and bad, even God can’t be perfect because he was a Jealous God. In Genesis, this promise was repeated a couple times. God was putting together Abram, Sarai and their descendants a destiny, and there was a struggle for these people with the new destiny that was assigned to them. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. God changed the name of Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, the new identity’s for their destiny. Abram, Sarai and Lot, his nephew, had to travel to the land in Canaan to fulfill a promise from God. First,

There was a bad famine in the land. Abram went to Egypt because he didn’t see any food in Canaan. When Abram and Sarai got closer to Egypt, Abram said to his wife “‘I know that you are a beautiful woman. The people who live in Egypt will see you. Then they will say, “This is Abram’s wife.” Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. Say that you are my sister. Then they will act well towards me because of you. They will let me live because of you.” (Genesis 12:11-13) Once he had sent this to his wife, Abram and Sarai entered Egypt. The people of Egypt saw that Sarai was really beautiful. Once the Pharaoh’s princes saw Sarai. The Pharaoh took her in the palace and Abram became rich from all the Pharaoh gave to Abram. But while Sarai was there, God made the Pharaoh and his household very ill. The Pharaoh called Abram over and said, “You have done an evil thing to me. You should have told me that she was your wife. You should not have said, “She is my sister.” I took her as my wife because you said that. Here she is. Take your wife and go away.” (Genesis 12:15-19) Then Abram and Sarai left Egypt and, Lot went with them. Another characteristic’s of God was how the Lord made the Pharaoh and his house very ill. Which was harsh for what God had done. God showed that he punishes sinners. They might not know that they are sinning. But even then, God punishes

On the journey Abram and Lot kept on arguing with each other. So Abram said to Lot, “Here is the whole country. Go away from me. If you go to the left, I shall go to the right. If you go to the right, I shall go to the left.” So Lot looked around and saw the plain in the valley of the Jordan River. He chose that for himself. So once they are not together anymore. The Lord spoke to Abram and said, “Look about you. Look from there, where you are. Look north, south, east and west. All of the land that you see, I shall give to you. I shall give it to you and your descendants for always. It will be impossible to count your descendants, as it is impossible to count tiny bits of dust. Come! Walk all through the country. Walk north, south, east and west because I shall give it all to you.” (Genesis 13:14-17) God characteristics for this story is that he was good. He told Abram that all that land you see is now his and his