Do you see God’s grace? By entering into a covenant with us – and making solemn promises, and giving visible signs, God is bending over backwards to us to prove his trustworthiness and goodness.
As you see the confirmations God gave Abram, you can humbly thank God, that he himself has confirmed, by his own power, by his own promise, by his own covenant – He is committed to deliver his blessings to you.
Whatever God says is true and right and good. By comparison, our knowledge is incomplete. We’re vulnerable to making mistakes and jumping to wrong conclusions. And so it’s essential for our faith to be anchored in God’s truth...