In God’s pursuit of making His name known, He called a nation to become missionaries for His cause. This nation began with a man named Abraham.

Why do you think Abraham was used for this specific purpose?

In Genesis 12:1–3, we see two details about the nations. First, God desires to make Abraham into a great nation. God fulfills this promise by making Abraham’s descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky (Genesis 15:5). The second thing we see about the nations is that through Abraham, “all families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). The Lord blessed Abraham and his family; he and his descendants became not only a missionary family, but a missionary nation.

What keeps you from thinking God can use you in some of the same ways He used Abraham?