Through the lens of Woman

There is something easy to miss in Genesis 12. Abram took his wife, Sarai (Gen 12:5). The verse doesn’t say Sarai went. It says Abram took.

It can sound passive. But read the rest of the story. Sarai walks into a foreign land at 65, leaves the only home she has ever known, watches her husband repeatedly fail her, waits 25 more years before her son is born, and never stops being the mother of the promise. That is not passive. That is one of the longest acts of trust recorded in Scripture.

If you are a woman in a season where you feel like you are mostly being taken along by someone else’s leading — a husband, a job, a season of life that wasn’t fully yours to choose — Sarai’s story has something in it for you. The Father has not forgotten you. The promise runs through you, too. He is not just doing something with the man at the front of your life. He is doing something with you, often more profoundly than the people watching can see.

One small thing today: in the place where you feel most carried-along, ask the Father — what are you doing in me, here, that no one else can see? Sit with the answer. He sees you.