Lesson Seventeen

Remember this lesson was recorded to an audience of….none. Forgive me for any awkwardness :P
Please complete Lesson 18 for our meeting on January 25 as usual.

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This week, we say good-bye to Abraham the great patriarch of faith.

Our book has us look at several different verses to reflect back on Abraham’s character, how he held up in the face of major life decisions, and what purposes God chose him for.

After completing the examination for myself, my main takeaway is that

ABRAHAM WAS HUMAN.

He had the capacity for greatness and also the capacity for utter failure.

SO DO I AND SO DO YOU.

Each day we get the opportunity to choose.

Choose God. Choose faith. Choose love.

I pray that at the end of each of our lives, people will reflect on the history of our lives and say that we are women who loved God. They will look back at the highs and lows and determine that we too were human, and see a GREAT GOD who loved us and used us just as we were as He molded and shaped us through the course of our lives.

Adam Clarke gave a good eulogy of Abraham: “Above all as a man of God, he stands unrivaled; so that under the most exalted and perfect of all dispensations, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, he is proposed and recommended as the model and pattern according to which the faith, obedience, and perseverance of the followers of the Messiah are to be formed. Reader, while you admire the man, do not forget the God that made him so great, so good, and so useful. Even Abraham had nothing but what he had received; from the free unmerited mercy of God proceeded all his excellences; but he was a worker together with God, and therefore did not receive the grace of God in vain. Go thou, believe, love, obey, and persevere in like manner.”***

***From David Guzik’s Study Guide on Gen 25