comfortable, and here comes God, calling him to go someplace he doesn’t know anything about. But God makes Abram a promise. He says, “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Gen. 12:2–3). I can imagine Abram talking back to God. “Say what? A great nation is going to come from us? Maybe you missed this,
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