The Story: God’s promises
Last time we discovered that God’s vision when He created the world was to be with us. However, the first human beings, Adam and Eve, chose a different vision; sin and the sinful nature entered the human race. Week one finished with the great flood, a natural disaster, that gave God the opportunity to start again.
In week 2 we will be looking into the lives of various characters. Two, in particular, God chooses to build a new nation that will reveal God and His plan to get us back. The amazing thing is this couple are old and childless yet God promises He will make a great nation from them. True to His promise from Abraham and his wife Sarah comes the nation of Israel. From Abraham also comes the Arab world.
In choosing Abraham and Sarah to begin the new nation, God reveals a pattern. God chooses unlikely people who are not the smartest, the most beautiful and handsome with the best CVs. God chooses ordinary people like you and me. We will also see that God is capable and willing to keep any promise that He makes, no matter how unlikely it might seem to us.
