Day 4 – Abrahamic Covenant

“So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, ‘I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates river” Genesis 15:8

Before God spoke these words, He asked Abram to present a sacrifice of a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon and split their carcasses in half before the Lord. Abraham saw a smoking pot and a flaming torch move between them.

God moved between this sacred path of blood created by the sacrifice to establish His covenant and divinely demonstrated the way to Him through sacrifice in the salvation to come. He asked Abraham to circumcise himself and the males with Him as a mark of the covenant, a sacred sign and reminder of God’s promise of a mighty nation.

At the beginning of chapter 15 in Genesis, we read God’s promise to Abram. And though it might have sounded impossible to him, he believed God. “And Abraham believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith” Genesis 15:6. No old covenant believer is more associated with the covenant of grace than the patriarch Abraham. He believed the Lord and trusted Him unconditionally to fulfill the promises made. He never lived to see the enormity of this covenant bearing fruit through the children of Israel and the believers today, but at that moment – He trusted God.

The Abrahamic Covenant teaches us to have implicit faith and trust in the promises God gives us, even though we do not see the fullness of the fruit of the promises, it all works together for the good of God. Believe the Lord, as Abraham did.

Prayer: Father, I want to have faith like Abraham and trust You regardless of my mind telling me things are impossible. Allow Your word and promises to saturate my soul in such a way that You can say: “And (put in your name) believed the Lord!” Thank You that we can see through this covenant that You already made a path of sacrificial salvation through Jesus Christ to Your heart. Amen.

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