Parting Ways through Faith

Day 4: Genesis 13-16

The story of Abram and Lot parting ways has new meaning to me after my church planting experience. When Shane and I were thinking about how to approach our church planting partners about parting ways, we read this story often. Here you had two people who were very wealthy and the land could no longer support them both. Also, strife existed between their herders. But Abram didn’t want strife between the two of them, so he told Lot that Lot could choose which land to take and he would then go the other way.

Shane and I spent a lot of time thinking about this and decided that it was the right way to think about parting ways with the church planting couple. We didn’t know what they would choose, and we didn’t really know what we wanted to do either. Once I began looking at this hard situation in this way—as one where we would just trust God that he would make happen what needed to happen—I felt so much peace about the whole situation. The story of Abram and Lot increased my faith and brought me peace during a very difficult time. I knew that no matter how hard things got—and things got VERY hard afterwards—God would take care of us.

After Abram and Lot departed ways, God blessed Abram and Abram praised the Lord.