"Your name will be Abraham, for I am making you the father of a multitude of nations."- Genesis 17:5
Despite all of our protests to the contrary, few of us have the faith that Abraham had. Abraham believed in the "big picture" and trusted that God would keep His promises, even though Abraham knew he wouldn't be around to see the fulfillment of those promises - at least not on Earth. And like Abraham, God has made a promise to us that we too are to be parents of future generations. We claim that we understand that there is a heavenly life after our earthly death, but we are so focused on our own short time on the Earth that we miss our role in the big picture - the generations that will live on the Earth because of us, long after we move on. Jesus gives us a glimpse of what we should expect when in today's Gospel he tells the Jews that Abraham rejoiced to see Jesus on Earth, long after he had passed away. We too should expect to see ALL of our descendants throughout time. Have you thought about a thousand years from now, what will we see?
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