What happens when following God leads straight into a desert? In Genesis 12 and 15, Abraham reaches the promised land only to face famine, barrenness, and the apparent impossibility of becoming a great nation. Then God takes him beneath the night sky, where countless stars frame the tension between present circumstances and a promise that seems beyond reach.
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Abraham arrived at the promised land only to find a desert during a famine. How does his experience of disappointment mirror struggles we face when following God’s direction, and what can we learn from how God responded to his doubt?
The sermon describes a universal human longing for Eden or “home,” quoting Tolkien on our sense of exile. Where do you most feel that restlessness in your own life, and how does God’s promise of a place of communion with Him speak into it?
God’s promise to Abraham had both a particular focus (one man, one family, one land) and a global scope (“all families of the earth shall be blessed”). Why is it important not to forget the global aspect of God’s plan, and how should this shape how we view God’s relationship with people outside our own faith community?
God invited a disappointed Abraham outside to count the stars. When have you felt you were standing in a “desert of promise”? What does it mean practically to “count stars” in your own circumstances, and how can focusing on God’s power and character change your perspective on current struggles?
The sermon traces one man’s sin (Adam) producing global brokenness and one man’s obedience (Christ, the second Adam) restoring global blessing. How does seeing Jesus as the fulfillment of Abraham’s covenant change the way you read the rest of Scripture or live as part of God’s family today?
The genealogical promise (descendants like stars) and the geographical promise (the land) were both essential to God’s covenant with Abraham. Why do you think both place and people matter so much in God’s redemptive plan, and what does this suggest about the importance of community and physical space in our faith?
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Where did we lose our way? Our story, born in the light, was perfect, but we wanted more. Separated from the light, surrounded by darkness, from a garden of intimacy to the fiery kilns of Egypt, but He remembers the promise, the voice in the fire, the nation born in chains, the plagues, the blood, the exodus. Stand still and watch the sea part.
All right, all right. From Eden to eternity, we are in episode three today, so you need two things with you. Did you bring your Bible? Everybody got a Bible with them? All right, you got your Bible. Everybody bring also your guide. If you don’t have one of these, you can get them out in the lobbies at all of our campuses. If you do have your guide, open up to page 16. That’s where today’s notes are going to be. We’re in a 20-week series where we’re going through the Bible from cover to cover, so if you’re brand new, whether you’re at O’Fallon, Troy, or St. Charles, this is a great time to be at Harvester because we’re talking about the entire story of the entire Bible. By the end of this series, which is going to end on Christmas, by the way, you’re going to hopefully know the entire story of the Bible, but that’s only if you show up. So welcome to week number three. You’re doing a good job so far.
Let me catch you up before we jump into today’s passage. We started this story off in the beginning of the Bible by looking at Genesis chapter one, where God created everything. He created it. He looked at it and said that it was very good because that’s what God does. God is good, and what God does is good as well, and then He handed His creation over to humanity, and He said, I want you to take care of it. I want you to actually rule over it, name the animals, take care of everything. He handed it over to us, and we immediately mess it up. That’s what we talked about last week. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve decided, instead of looking to God as the one who was good, they looked at the fruit and decided that was good, and God was trying to keep something from them. The moment their heart believed that God wasn’t good, everything fell apart. All of creation began to go into chaos. Humanity’s relationship with God was then separated. Humanity’s relationship with each other now is in disharmony. Humanity’s relationship with nature is just broken and messed up. We’ve seen a little bit of that this week, in nature with flooding and what is going on with all of creation. What’s going on is sin is in the middle of it, and it’s not just a problem in the Garden of Eden. This is a global problem.
What we see in Genesis is that sin has corrupted God’s good creation, and humanity is now separated from God’s presence and God’s blessing. It’s not just the Garden of Eden that was messed up; it was all of creation. This is a global problem. It wasn’t just Adam and Eve’s relationship that was messed up with God. This is a global problem. This includes you, and me, and every single person who’s lived since then.
But in the middle of this global problem, God steps in and gives Adam and Eve an image of what’s to come. It’s almost like He takes them up on the mountaintop for a moment so that they can see the rest of the story that is to come. In Genesis chapter 3, God gives them the peek at what’s coming near the end of the scriptures when He tells them that someday there is going to be a person who is born that’s going to come from the line of Eve. This offspring, this child, is going to do a few things. Number one, He is going to win the battle against Satan. Adam and Eve, you guys just lost the battle against the serpent in the garden. This person’s going to come, and He’s going to crush his head. He’s going to declare victory over all things that are evil. Not only that, but He’s also going to deal with the sin problem that is creating death. He is going to give of His own life, His own flesh, His own blood in order for death to be dealt with, but also so that mankind and humanity can be back together again, that they can be in relationship, that man and God can one more time be together for eternity. That’s how the Garden of Eden started, and that’s the projection toward where we’re going into eternity.
Now, we got to Genesis chapter 11, and I’d mentioned the Tower of Babel. Let’s start right there. In Genesis chapter 11, we still see this global perspective that’s happening and this global problem to the point where Adam and Eve are kicked out of the Garden of Eden, but they continue to have children. They multiply across the earth. By the time we get to Genesis 11, these little kids are still wicked at their heart. They’re still trying to not see God as good, but see themselves as good now. They believe that if enough of us get together, we can actually build a tower and ascend to the top of this tower. Essentially, we can become king of the hill. If God is going to disappear, and God’s not going to take care of us, and God is not good, and we’re actually smart, and we’re intelligent, and we can lead our own lives, let’s decide to do this. So they build this tower in Babel. They start to build it, and God steps in, intervenes, and scatters them across the earth. He sends them to various regions. He changes their language so that they can’t communicate with one another. He creates different people groups, and essentially, in this moment, what happens is God gives them up to their own desires. He says, okay, you don’t want to follow me. You’re on your own now.
There’s this passage in Deuteronomy chapter 32, verse 9, where it talks about God disinheriting the nations, where God looks at the peoples and says, okay, go to your nations, and you don’t want me to be the God of your nation. All right, we’re done. You go do your thing. You build your nation. You build your people. You worship what you want to worship, and let’s see how it goes. When everything’s in your hands, you want to be king of the castle. Here’s your opportunity, and He disinherits everybody, globally all the nations, except for one. In Genesis 32, it says, but there’s one group, one people, one nation that I’m going to claim as my own, and this will be where my plan gets launched to win all of you back to me.
And that’s what happens in Genesis 11 and following. We begin to see God’s plan begin to unroll in the following chapter. God’s plan, essentially what comes next, is this: He plans to focus the story on one land and one lineage. He focuses the rest of the story, a lot of the Old Testament, most of the Old Testament now, on one land and one lineage to bring His presence and blessing through this land and lineage back to all of creation. Does that make sense? That makes sense? You following me? Essentially, here’s what happens. The Bible opens with a global perspective. God creates the globe and the earth and everything in it. Mankind’s sin messes up the globe and earth and everything in it. Now we get to Genesis chapter 12, and God zooms in and refocuses the entire story on one little place, one geographical location, and one family. From this He says, I’m going to start here. If the Garden of Eden is lost, if the relationship with Adam and Eve is lost, well then, I’ve got a new garden, I’ve got a new land and a new family that’s going to rekindle it and become a blessing to everyone.
With that rolling out, we get to Genesis chapter 12. Open up your Bibles there. This is when God begins to take the first steps of that plan practically. Genesis chapter 12, verse 1 to 3. He pinpoints a particular person that He wants to be the one who rekindles that relationship, the one whose lineage and genealogy will bring about this son that was promised to Eve, and He comes to a guy named Abram, or later he’s going to be known as Abraham. It says this:
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. I will make you a great nation. 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.”
This is the beginning of God rolling out His plan to save everything that He created in Genesis chapter 1 and 2, and He does so by pinpointing a guy named Abraham and making a covenant promise to him. Now what I want to do today is I want to talk a little bit about that covenant promise and all that it entails because the foundations and the bits and pieces of this promise, they play out through the rest of the scripture. They play out all the way into Jesus’ ministry and Jesus’ life, so you have to understand the foundations of this to make sense of everything else that’s coming in the scripture.
So let’s go back to verse 1. In this promise, we see that it’s not just a generic promise, but there’s a geographical promise in the covenant that God is making to Abraham. Verse 1 says this: Go from your country to the land that I will show you. So He’s taking Abraham and He’s saying, I know you made your place at home. I know things are okay. You’re doing well. You’re thriving and surviving in your land, but I’ve got another place for you, and I want you to go to this place that I’m not going to tell you about, but if you follow me, I’ll show you where it is. He makes a geographical promise to him.
Now this is important because you read the rest of the Old Testament, and land plays a big part in it, doesn’t it? You hear about this promised land. You hear about this conquest of land. You hear about wars in the land. You hear about this punishment where the Jewish people are exiled from a land as a punishment. It’s almost like taking the land away is a punishment. You hear later in the prophets, the Jewish people saying, just take us back to a land, our home.
The question we have to ask is, why is land so important? So important that it’s the first part of the promise. What does land have to do with anything? Shouldn’t it just be our relationship with God, and God just give me a blessing? I think this is why He includes land right off the bat. I think there’s something within us that place and space is so important to the human experience. Would you agree with that? Have you ever been in a situation where you’re just in a place or a space, and you just feel uneasy, it’s almost like your heart is longing for a different place? Maybe you can’t name it, and maybe if you were to name it, you would just call it home? That my heart just longs. There’s something in us that just longs for home.
I think J.R.R. Tolkien said it best when he said this: “We all long for Eden. Our whole nature, at its best and least corrupted, is still soaked with the sense of exile.” That our nature, there’s a sense within us that we are a people in exile, that we’re not where we were created to be.
And Abraham here, he’s in this moment where he’s wandering around. Everybody’s been disinherited and scattered across the earth, and at the same time, every single person, I think ourselves included, believe that there’s something in me that just longs for Eden. I wasn’t made for this. I wasn’t made for this place. There’s this innate sense in us that I’m not home. By the time we meet Abraham here in this story, humanity has been removed from the Garden of Eden for generations by this time, wandering the earth, longing for what has been lost. And Eden, that was our home. That’s what we were created to be put in. That’s where God put humanity.
Abraham, he’s got this longing within him, and I don’t know necessarily that it was a longing for Eden. I don’t think we’re longing for Eden. I think what we’re longing for is the place where God communed with us. That’s what our hearts are longing for. It’s not that I want the fruit. It’s I want the God who communed with me in Eden. I want that place where God was there, and we walked together. That place where life was abundant, and relationships weren’t broken, and there wasn’t disunity. There was harmony in relationships. I long for Eden. I long for creation to be at peace, and there to be no more earthquakes, and landslides, and floods. I long for Eden.
But here’s the problem. Eden is closed, and that just seems terribly unfair. When you look at the first chapter of Genesis, God creates a place, and then He puts something in the place. The stars, they still have their place after this. God creates the firmament. He creates the atmosphere, and He puts the stars in there, and the stars have their place. God creates the fish, and He gives them their place. The sea and the fish, they still have their place. God creates land, and He puts animals on it, and the animals still have their place. Then He creates man, puts them in Eden, and Eden is lost. Mankind has lost its place, now wandering as exiles, separated from where they once met with God.
So God’s promise is, I have a place for you. I have a place for you. Abraham, go from your country to this place that I’m going to show you. With this promise to Abraham, God begins to call humanity back, not just to a place, not to the garden of Eden. He calls humanity back to Himself, to a place where He will meet with them there. So He drops a pin on the map, texts it over to Abraham, and says, “Meet me here. We’re going to start over.” There’s a geographical promise.
It goes on in verse two to give us a genealogical promise. God tells Abraham, you know, go to this place, and when you’re there, I’m going to make of you a great nation. Essentially, go to this place that I have, and then be fruitful and multiply. He’s returning the promise or the commandment that He gave Adam and Eve in their place. Now He’s giving that to Abraham. He’s like, I’m going to put you in a place, and I want you to be fruitful, and I want you to multiply.
Humanity was created to fill these places so that we can all commune with God, and essentially what Abraham is hearing in this promise is that you have this place that you commune with God, but in communing with God, you will also commune with people again. We’re going to create a place where God’s image can come into this community, and that image can form all of us into the likeness of God again. Humanity was created to form families. Humanity was created to live in community together, to be in societies that lived in God’s presence and reflected God’s character. And God says to Abraham, I know that’s not what you have right now, but I’m calling you back, and we’re going to start that.
In this land, you are going to multiply and become a great nation. Essentially, God’s promise to this point is this: I’ve got a plan, and here’s the plan. I’m going to start with one man, and this one man will become one family. This family will become one nation, and that nation will live in this land that God has given, and in that land, God’s presence will be among them. Things are going to be different in this nation. While the rest of the nations are out serving their gods, trying to become gods themselves, in this land, I am king. In this land, we are together. In this land, there is presence and blessing. And then from this, we will spread this image to the rest of the globe.
That’s where the promise ends. It ends with a global implication. Now let’s not forget though, the reason we’re going to shift to a global implication is because there’s a global problem. It’s not Abraham that has a problem. It’s all of humanity that has a problem. It’s not just the town that Abraham’s from that has the problem. It’s the entire world. All of the lands have a problem. We’re not talking about a local problem here. God is addressing a global problem. All of humanity is separated from His presence. All of humanity is separated from His blessing. And God’s not just interested in one man and one family and one land. He’s interested in bringing His blessings to all families, all lands, across all nations, for all time, forever, from Eden to eternity. This is His plan.
He ends His promise to Abraham with a global promise. He says, “In you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. In you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Now, don’t forget this part because here’s what’s getting ready to happen for the rest of the Old Testament. It’s going to become super focused on Israel. It’s going to be super focused on the Hebrew people or the Jewish people, to the point where we’re going to start to wonder, does God just care about Israel? Does God just care about the Jewish people?
In fact, we’re going to get to the New Testament, and there’s going to be this belief going around that if you’re not Jewish and you’re not in our country, then God can’t have a special relationship with you. Don’t forget the promise that God makes to Abraham, that your family is important. Your family is going to play a role. That role is going to be to bring me and my presence and my blessing and the relationship back to all families across the entire earth.
Essentially, here’s how I would show the breakdown of what God is going through in this plan. He starts Genesis with this global blessing. He creates everything and He blesses it and calls it very good. He gives this creation over to mankind to be the leader of and the ruler of, but mankind, sin is in the middle of it. One man, Adam, he sins in the midst of this. His sin leads to a global problem, a global brokenness. And so now the globe isn’t blessed; now it’s broken and all things that God has created. What’s God’s intent? Through one man’s son to bring everything back to a global blessing.
This son, He began to talk about when He was talking to Adam and Eve and telling Eve, one day there’s going to be a child who’s going to come and He’s going to remove all the barriers. He’s going to get another chance. In the New Testament, the son is known as the second Adam, where one man’s sin ruined everything. One man’s perfection, one man’s heart, one man’s character, one man’s sacrifice, one man’s teaching, one man’s life, one man’s presence is going to bring everybody back into a global blessing.
The promise of Abraham, the covenant of Abraham, is not just about Abraham. It’s about Abraham and his family and his land and everybody else’s family and all the other land that God created as well. This is the promise that God makes to Abraham.
So God finds Abraham in his hometown, and He gives him this promise. He says, I want you to leave your land, follow me, we’re going to do this thing, we’re going to create a nation, it’s going to be a blessing to the whole world. And Abraham, in faith, believes God. So you know what he does? He packs up and he leaves. He puts that pin in his GPS and he begins to head west toward this land that he has never seen.
It takes him a while to get there and travel there, but eventually he arrives. He arrives with this hope, beaming with hope. There’s this grand land that the Lord is returning to us. It’s going to be just like the Garden of Eden. It’s going to be beautiful. It’s going to be fruitful. It’s going to be a land of milk and honey. It’s going to be amazing.
He arrives with this genealogical promise as well, that I’m going to have so many descendants, I’m going to be the top of the family tree. But when he arrives, there’s a little bit of a problem. He stands there in that spot, on that pin, holding the reality that they’ve arrived, but this isn’t Eden. He looks around, and he’s not in Eden; he’s in the deserts of Canaan. This land, known as Canaan, in reality, begins to set in. I imagine in Abraham’s face, he just begins to melt and maybe begin to wonder, what went wrong? Did I take a wrong turn? Did I mishear the promise of God? I sacrificed everything and moved to this land, and I look around me and it’s a desert. The land is barren. The people that are here are not worshipers of God. They’re in the middle of a famine in this land.
After looking at the geographical promise, he looks at his wife and he looks at himself, and I think it sets in. Wait, we’re in our 70s. How are we going to have kids? We never have been able to have kids up to this point. We gave up on that dream a long time ago. Where’s this nation going to come from? Abraham looks at the land, and it’s barren. He looks at his wife, and she’s barren. They look around them, and the land’s not going to produce life. They look within them, and they’re not going to be able to produce life. They’re standing in this place of promise, but everything looks like a grave.
What went wrong? What went wrong? I wonder if you’ve ever been there. I wonder if you’ve ever been in a place where you just prayed to God, “God, I feel like I’ve tried to do everything right. I’ve brought this to You. I’ve listened to You. I’ve obeyed. I’ve sacrificed. I’ve given so much. How can I be here today? Is this what You’ve promised me? Barrenness? A desert? Where is Your goodness? Where is Your promise? Where is Eden?”
Have you ever questioned the promise of God and sat in the middle of a place where you thought God was sending you, and you sat there disappointed and confused? Maybe you look at God’s promises, a promise like forgiveness, saying, if you just have faith in Me, if you just submit your life to Me, I’ll forgive you of all of your sins. And you look at God and you’re like, but do You know what I’ve done, God? I know that’s what You’ve promised, but I’m not sure that You can bring forgiveness to this desert of a heart.
Maybe you’ve sat in a place where there was this relationship that you were in, and you tried to do everything right, and you felt like it was from God, and all of a sudden, you’re in this disharmony, this disunity. God, is this where You’ve led me? Is this the context You’ve put me in?
Or maybe you look around you in your home, or maybe you look at even just your bank account, your finances, and you’re like, God, You told me that You will provide for all my needs according to Your riches in glory. You made that promise to me, and we’re struggling like crazy, Lord. What about Your promise? Your promise seems impossible.
You’ve heard that God has the power to overcome death of the soul and death of the body as well. And here you sit, struggling with the diagnosis, wondering, God, I’ve tried to do everything right. Is this where You’ve led me? I think that’s what Abraham’s feeling in this moment. Abraham feels you. Your story is very similar to Abraham’s story. This is the lower story that we’re talking about. We all live very similar lower stories.
But what I love about God is when we’re stuck in the lower story, when we’re questioning Him, He has a way of taking us up to the mountaintop so we can see the bigger picture. That’s exactly what He does with Abraham here.
In the middle of a barren land and a barren marriage, we get to Genesis chapter 15. Flip over there, Genesis chapter 15, starting with verses 5 and 6. God does something beautiful. God essentially grabs hold of Abraham and He says, “You know, let’s go outside for a walk beneath the nighttime sky. Let’s have a little conversation. I know you’re wondering about My promise. Can we just go for a walk?” It says this: God brought Abraham outside and said, “Look towards heaven and number the stars, if you’re able to number them.”
Then He said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” And Abraham believed the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness.
Now, a little short conversation that goes back and forth. As I’m sitting with this passage this week, just trying to imagine how it unfolds, I kind of imagine it like this: God comes to Abraham in the middle of his disappointment, knowing that Abraham’s right where God called him to be. Looking at Abraham, He’s just like, down, can’t see how things are going to go. There’s this dark cloud hovering over him. He comes over to Abraham and He’s like, “Abraham, you seem disappointed. You seem disappointed where I’ve brought us. Let’s go for a walk. I know it’s late, but can we just go for a walk? I want to tell you a little bit of a story.”
So they go outside in the land of Canaan in the middle of the night, and they’re underneath the stars, and God begins to tell them a story. It starts like this: “Abraham, in the beginning, I created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was dark and void. But My spirit, the spirit of God, was hovering over it all. My presence was there in the middle of it. And then I said, ‘Let there be light,’ and in the middle of that darkness, in the middle of that void, light appeared. Then I spoke and in the middle of that darkness I said, ‘Let there be stars and sun and moon and planets.’”
And you know what happened to Abraham? All of creation lit it up and twinkled with these stars that we’re looking at now.
What once was barren, what once was dark and void, with just a word, it all came to be. And you know, Adam and Eve and I, we used to be in this garden place, and it was this beautiful place and had this great relationship. We would just walk together in the middle of the garden, and sometimes at night, we would lie down on this grassy hill that was over by the trees, and we’d look at stars and just marvel at the goodness of God’s creation. Adam would lie there, and he would start trying to count. He thought he knew everything. He thought he could figure it all out. He was just like, “I’m gonna count all of Your goodness and what You’ve created.” He could never get there. He knew exactly how many stars there were, but what he couldn’t figure out was that my goodness cannot be counted and my power cannot be weighed.
“Abraham, you want to count stars? Would that help you? You want to count the stars? Yes, Abraham, the land is barren; I see that. Yes, Abraham, your wife has not been able to have a child. You’re old now. You feel like you’ve reached beyond those years. But what I have promised, I have promised, and I am still God. You think the stars are hard to count? Wait until you try to count your descendants.”
“My goodness is too great to count, and My power is too heavy to measure.”
Church, this is what I want you to hear from Abraham’s story, and I want you to hear it for your own story as well: When you’re unsure whether the problem or the promise wins, go outside and start counting stars.
When you’re overwhelmed by the problems of life and you’re not sure if God can come through, when you look around you and all you see is desert lands, when you look within you and you see inadequacies, go outside and start counting stars. Maybe instead of looking around us and looking within us, our hope comes from looking up. And when we look up, we see this God who is so good, so incredibly powerful. All He has to do is speak and things come to existence.
When you’re unsure whether He will come through, start counting stars.
It says that Abraham looked at the stars, and that’s when he began to believe. That’s when he began to have faith. Not that anything at that time changed because it didn’t. In fact, Abraham never saw this land developed. He never got to see a nation inhabit this land. He and his wife died in this land. The only property that his nation owned was the graves that he was buried in. But that was the beginning of God fulfilling His promise.
The story goes on throughout the rest of the book of Genesis. Let’s just cover the rest of the story. It starts with Abraham. Abraham, through the mighty work of God, he and his wife Sarah, in their old age, birthed a son named Isaac. It’s a great story. You have to read the story of how it comes about. They are completely caught off guard with how God makes this happen. It’s a beautiful story, beautiful image.
Now, what once was a dark sky, there’s one star in it. There’s a flickering star, Isaac, the son of hope. Isaac goes on, gets married, and he has a few sons, Esau and Jacob. But specifically, the story begins to focus around Jacob, who was later named Israel. Israel is just the name of Jacob. It’s the same person.
Now, there’s a few more stars twinkling in the sky. Through Jacob, he gets married and has multiple children. The story begins to focus on 12 of his sons who get married. They become the 12 sons who get married and begin to have children. These 12 sons begin to become like their own little family groups, almost like little tribes. That’s how big the family tree’s beginning to get, to the point where you get to the end of the book of Genesis, and the land is in famine still.
One of these sons that Jacob has, actually by God’s providence, ends up in Egypt, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. He rises to power, second in command. The land of Canaan is still in famine. Through his power, he actually brings all of his family to Egypt.
At the end of Genesis, those 12 sons, with their wives, it’s 70 of them that travel to Egypt. Now, what Abraham thought was impossible—to have just one child—has spread to about 70. The interesting thing about that is, while they’re in Egypt, it’s a son of Abraham, Joseph, who becomes a blessing not just to the 70, but he becomes a blessing to the whole world. Because in that famine, through his leadership, administration, and prayer life, he’s able to strategize a way to feed not just Canaan but the entire region. Now, Abraham’s grandson begins to bless other nations. This is the sprout of the promise of God. It grows to much more than 70.
That’s the last chapter of Genesis. You flip one more page over, and you get to the next book of the Bible, which is Exodus. That book starts 400 years later after the 70. By that time, there are millions of descendants of Abraham in the country of Egypt. Joseph is gone by that point, but the family of God is very present. The family that God promised is now becoming a nation underneath Egypt and within the borders of Egypt. Egypt is noticing. They’ve got a problem on their hands: What are we going to do with the descendants of Abraham? That’s a story for next week.
Let’s pray.
Lord, we just pray your presence in the middle of our problems. God, we pray that we begin to see who You are—that You are the God who speaks things into existence. You are the God who, when He goes to work, it’s very good. God, our prayer is that we just trust in You, that we put our faith in You, that there is no promise that You will not keep. When we don’t know how that is going to happen, how that can even be possible, we rest on You. We rest on Your goodness.
Father, by the power of Your Spirit, turn our eyes away from our own hearts. Turn our eyes away from our own problems around us. Set our eyes upward. Help us to see You in all of Your glory, in all of Your goodness. It’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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