Providential Preparation for the Promise

Long before Abraham hears the word of God, the Lord is already at work arranging his ancestry, his geography, and even his suffering, to prepare the man of faith for the life of faith, through whom the promised savior would come. In this we learn that life is not a series of random events and circumstances, but is all an outworking of God's plan, where human weakness and even human sin and unbelief cannot thwart His purposes.