In this passage, we see that God is faithful to keep His promises, not because of His people, but in spite of His people. Though old sins will rear their ugly heads in our lives from time to time, our hope is in Jesus who will keep us to the end.

Even though the city of Sodom has been destroyed, the spirit of Sodom is alive and well, even in God's people. In this passage, we see that God isn't content to just take His people out of Sodom, but that He is also taking Sodom out of His people.

In this passage, we note "the kindness and the severity of God" (Romans 11:22). Severity because a holy God must punish sin, and kindness because God has shown us where certain behaviours lead. Before we come down too hard on the wickedness of Sodom, we need to look into the mirror of God's Word and examine our hearts and see if there is any wicked way in us.

In this passage, we see that the God of the Bible is good, that He is the Judge of all the earth, and that He will do what is just.

In this passage, we see that the God of the Bible is great, that there is nothing too hard for the Lord, and that the Lord loves to do the impossible. Do you have a great God?

In this passage, we see the institution of the covenant of circumcision and the importance of what is on the outside matching what is on the inside. Unfortunately, we have all failed to keep God's covenant and are by nature covenant-breakers. But the good news is that Jesus, the only true covenant-keeper, died the death of a covenant-breaker, so that by faith in Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we might become covenant-keepers.

In this passage, we learn that God is sovereign and that we are not, that God's grace is sufficient for sinners like us, and that God's blessing abounds for those who trust in Him by faith.

In this passage, the Lord renews His promise of land to Abram, but in a very strange way. We see some animals get cut in half and some animals not get cut in half. We see Abram drive some vultures away. We read about an ominous prophecy concerning Abram’s descendants. But then, we read something so strange, in the smoking fire pot and flaming torch, that it sounds like a scene from Disney’s The Sword in the Stone. But we see how all of it points us to Jesus Christ.

In this passage, we see how salvation works: By grace through faith in Christ alone. We can trust God to do all that He said He would do because Jesus conquered sin and death and hell on our behalf on the cross.

In this passage, we see a battle and a blessing that point us to Jesus. We see that Jesus is the true and better King who executes judgment and plunders His enemies, and that Jesus is the true and better Priest who mediates a new covenant between the people and the Lord. May we find comfort in the fact that God always keeps His promises.