“Then [Adonai] brought [Avram] outside and said, ‘Look up at the sky, and count the stars – if you can count them! Your descendants will be that many!’”
Genesis 15:5
A few years back I bought a telescope for my son. For about the first month or so we were outside every night, looking through the little eye piece and standing in awe of the stars. We even soon after purchased a book that gave an inside scope of what star formations could be seen each night of the year. I was so impressed at how much I could see with the naked eye when I knew where to look, but even more impressed when I looked through the lens. So many stars lie out there, void to the human eye. Yet they were still there, still shining, and still proving a promise.
I remember seeing all these stars, honestly too many to count. Yet in reading Genesis 15:5, that is the challenge Adonai gave to Avram. “Count the stars, Avram. Count them if you can.” Obviously there was no way he could count all of them. Adonai knew this, but He also spoke to Avram confirmation once more that his legacy would be as numerous as the stars. We are fortunate to be able to read on and see the end result. We know that Avram became father Abraham, just like the song tells us, and he did have many sons. But before a single son was born, he was first challenged to count the stars.
Genesis 14:21 – 15:6
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