The Inscape of Faith

Genesis 21:

3 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God commanded him.

In previous meditations, we saw God cutting a covenant with Abraham. Abraham, taking a heifer, a goat and a ram, each, three years old, and a dove and a pigeon, cuts the animals in half and kills the fowls. Into this arranged  row of two halves of animals, descends God to walk. It’s a great enacted statement of being one with with Abraham. It says, “My life is for your life. Any one that touches you has also touched me. I’m in covenant with you. If you are attacked, I’m also attacked. If I fail to come to your aid and help, then the life of the betrayer amongst the two parties will be as the end of those animals and fowls.” Covenant is supposed to be between two, but this is initiated by God, even though He is one. read more

Genes 20:

5 “…. I have done this with a clear conscience and clear hand.”

The above statement is part of the fragment of Abimelech’s argument before God. read more

Genesis 19

27 And Abraham get up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord 

28 And looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah and towards all the land of the plain, and behold, and lo, the smoke if the country went up as the smoke of a furnace  read more

Genesis 19

24 And it came to pass when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwell read more

Genesis 19:

29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. read more

Genesis 18:

10 Then the Lord said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” read more

Reading: Genesis 17: 1-14

Acts 7:

8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision 

The Hebrew word mul means to circumcise or to cut off (the foreskin of the male organ). In this scene, the Lord (Adoney) who has already initiated, cut, a covenant earlier with Abram whom He newly rebranded as Abraham is now giving circumcision as a sign of His covenant with him, his friend. There is much emphasis on the words covenant and circumcision so much so that if one is interchanged for the other, the meaning will still be the same. The word covenant appears eleven times in the passage of Genesis chapter seventeen. It’s almost synonymous with the word circumcision in each case. read more

Genesis 17:

5 Neither shalt the name anymore be called Abram, but thy name shalt be Abraham, for a father of many nations I have made thee read more

Genesis 17:

1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty (El-Shaddai – margin), walk before me and be blameless…” read more

Genesis 15

9 So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon  read more