The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will make you into a great nation… I will give this land [of Canaan] to your descendants.”
But then a famine struck the land; Abram journeyed down to Egypt to find food. Fearing that Pharoah’s coveteousness might lead to violence, he directed his wife to lie and say, “I am his sister. I am not his wife”.
Why was this necessary? Had he forgotten what the Lord had promised? “I will give this land [of Caanan]to your descendants “.
God’s sovereign will might mean suffering and hardship for a time – Job learned that – but it might mean blessing and protection even in very dangerous circumstances.
Suffering may be a means to an end, but blessing
is the end.
