The Slow Work of God (Gen. 15)
13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” (Gen. 15:13-16 NIV)
Rarely is God in a hurry.
Abram has grown impatient after waiting ten years for a son. A decade has passed since God’s first promise to make of Abram a great nation. Yet little has happened.
