Abram and Sarai: Are We There Yet?
5th in a series on Men and Women in the Bible dealing with waiting, disappointment and unemployment. Abram and Sarai: Are We There Yet? What excuses have you made today? “I can’t get my foot in the door.” “Ageism is alive and well.” “They keep hiring people with higher degrees than me.” “Their vision is short-sighted and distorted.” Those have been my excuses as to why I haven’t gotten the job that I wanted. What they amount to are examples of blame, whining and pride. Also, as a follower of Jesus Christ, I am completely forgetting that God is sovereign and He is working out His plan in my life. In Genesis 12 we read the story of Abram(his name means ‘high father’) and God speaking to him out of the blue, telling him to move to an undesignated location. At 75 years old, he had many legitimate excuses for not going. And there were some in-congruencies in the revelation that, as a neighbor, I might have raised: “You’re old”, “How can you be a