The famine was grievous in the land

“And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”

This section gives us an interesting sequence of events. Firstly, God called Abraham, secondly Abraham obeyed God and set out on the journey that God told Him to take, thirdly the Lord appeared to Abraham and then, lastly, there was a famine in the land. There are many people today who try to tell us that famines, or hard times, come because we have sinned. This is quite wrong, the Lord doesn’t just bring us hard times because we have sinned. In John 9: 3 we read the Lord’s response to the disciples question about the man born blind: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” In Deuteronomy 8: 2, 3, 16 the Lord told Israel that they had spent forty years in the wilderness “to humble thee and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thous wouldest keep his commandments, or no... to do thee good at thy latter end.” In Hebrews 12: 6 we read, “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,” This passage goes on to say that the Lord is treating us like sons when we are experiencing famine or hardship. Famine times are never easy but they are designed to come to an end and they are designed by God so that God will do good to us in the end. If you are going through a time of famine in your life take heart, it is probably because God wants you know that He loves you as a child and He wants you to succeed and be better for the experience. God never gives us trials with the aim of causing us to fail but to succeed. If we fail in the trial, it is because we have chosen to fail rather than to trust God.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)