Genesis 12 Restlessness 

God told Abram to leave his home and go where He would send him, to the land of Canaan he went, but note: Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev. How like us, we move from here to there. There is a key word here: continually. That speaks of restlessness. Why are we restless? Why do we pick up and move constantly? How different was my mother-in-law. Her favorite saying was: “I was born in NY and I am going to die in NY” and she did just that. But Abram having left Ur moved to Haran and from there he moved “continually.”  

God told Abram that He would give this land to him, yet in his first test, he failed. A famine happened and he moved to Egypt. Abram was restless and he failed to trust God for the land of Canaan’s provision —even in a time of famine. How about us? Are we restless? Are we content? Take a lesson from Abram: trust God in all circumstances for He is the Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides.