Read Through the Bible in a Year - April 9th

Genesis 15: God’s faithfulness. This is one of my favorite stories because it displays graphically the extent of God’s faithfulness. Abram continues to have his doubts, and why shouldn’t: he’s old and still has no direct heirs. God makes a covenant with Abram and becomes the one who guarantees the covenant. This was the way people made covenants then. The maker of the covenant walks through the bloody ditch to signify that “If I break my end of the agreement, you are free to do to me what has been done to these animals.” Does that affect your image of God? If so, how?