Abram and Sarai: He has my job, what do I do?
6th in a series on Men and Women in the Bible dealing with waiting, disappointment and unemployment. Abram and Sarai: He has my job, what do I do? Genesis 15 This morning at Career Prospectors we talked about the Hidden Network of the job search. The job that we often want is not advertised or someone else already has it. In ancient kingdoms the strategy was to bump off the king in order to take his place, but I suppose that’s not an option today. The presuppositions with which I am operating are that we each have God-given gifts and abilities and that we can find jobs where we can flourish and be a valuable, contributing member to society. Abram and Sarai had been promised by God that their descendants would inhabit the land of Canaan. At ages 75 and 65 they had set out from all that they knew to a land unknown. By the time we get to Genesis 15 Abram is in his early 80’s. The promise of a descendant has not been fulfilled. Abram complains that af