Day 2: Genesis 12:2-3
I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
God called Abram, later renamed Abraham meaning “father of a multitude.” Through Abraham all the families of the earth shall be blessed, & a distinction is made between those who God blesses and curses. This is a continuation of the hope that was first presented in Genesis 3:15. Instead of living under a curse of sin, blessing will come. And, the blessing will come to people throughout the earth (all the families of the earth shall be blessed). Far beyond a strict ancestral lineage of blessing, God is promising a blessing for all people everywhere who believe. In a world that can be heavy and trying, we have hope because God promises this blessing and we can live with hope and joy.
God “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” The anticipated blessing is realized in Jesus Christ, who is a physical descendant of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). We who believe are blessed eternally in heaven with every spiritual blessing.