Chosen for a Purpose

Genesis 12:1–9

When we look around at our world, especially in the last couple of days, it's easy to see that humanity is still wrestling with the same problem that began in Genesis 3. Pride, violence, and self-interest fracture our relationships with God, one another, with creation, and even within ourselves.

The question is: how will God bring restoration?

The answer begins in Genesis 12, when God calls Abram. God tells him to leave the comfort of home and family and step into the unknown. But this call comes with a promise: “I will bless you… and you will be a blessing. ...and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

God doesn’t bless Abram just for his own sake. The blessing is meant to flow outward—through him, his family, and ultimately through Jesus—to the whole world. True blessing isn’t about getting thing from God and building our own little kingdoms; it’s about living in step with God’s abundance and sharing that goodness with others.

One way to picture blessing is like the wind at your back, making it possible to go further and accomplish more than you ever could on your own. Blessing is about getting to walk with God and experience the presence and goodness of God in all of the ups and downs of life.

The pattern set in Genesis 12 still holds today:

• God calls us out of comfort into trust.

• God blesses us with His presence and provision.

• We are blessed so that we can be a blessing.

  
  

This is God’s blueprint for restoration. We encounter God, we are changed, and we carry that change into the lives of those around us. In big and small ways—encouragement, service, generosity, justice—we become part of God’s ongoing story of healing in the world.

Like Abram, we are chosen for a purpose. We are invited to trust God, step into the unfamiliar, and join in God's mission to restore the relationships broken when sin first entered the world.

May we be people that announce the invitation of reconciliation.