One day God called a man of Ur
He went out with family and no murmur
God promised him a fair, goodly land
Promised to make of him a merry band
He who became the father of the Jew
Was even of supposed gentile hue
He who by grace began a new race
Was an ordinary man-no righteous ace
Abram believed the improbable
Because he esteemed God redoubtable
He hoped to beget a child in dotage
Relying on a promise given in old age
Righteousness was imputed to him
God rewarded his faith as if on a whim
God revalued Abram’s spiritual balance sheet
Because he accounted him worthy of such feat
Abram, heir of this great promise
Wandered in search for a fair city
Whose architect is the God of verity
Trouble loomed on this journey of faith
Abram and nephew bickered over grazing
Rights to pasture and their herds’ fate
Paths parted as Lot chose by sighting
And there was great calm
God came reminding and reassuring
Separation from unbelief is balm
For faith and doubt will forever be striving
The promise is to God’s elect
Not to those they carnally select
Abraham waited for GOD; He must have been in his day an one called Odd. Abraham endured as seeing Him who was invisible; And the very reason why he remained invincible!
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