The Biography of Abraham Part 2 or 4

I read somewhere that if you stand on top of a tower, and look at the horizon, your good eyesight can see about 25 kilometres away. In other words, if you look North, East, West, South, you will be able to see a circle of 25km radius.

In Gen 13, Abraham and Lot, his cousin, had a cordial relationship. But as their livestocks increased, their servants and workers started disputing and quarrelling over the vegetation and the water wells.

Abraham said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me: if (you take) to the left, then I will go to the right; or if (you take) to the right, then I will go to the left." Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the valley of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere...Lot chose for himself all the valley of Jordan... He chose East and journeyed eastward. Thus Abraham and Lot were separated from each other.

Abraham was magnanimous. He was left with the half of the land that was arid and barren.

But God had His own decision. After Lot left, the Lord said to Abraham: "Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever..."

You see, in his generosity, Abraham asked Lot to chose half, the left half or the right half. But God changed that and gave Ahraham both the left and the right, forever.

This is just one of the examples in Abraham's biography illustrating Abraham's special relationship with God.

As joint-heirs with Christ (Rom 8:17), God would treat us the same too.

Alleluia.