You and I are called not to be placed above others, but for God s blessings to show themselves. Many were destroyed because of the flood, but many more came out of the family of Noah. After the flood, God still loves the world and is redeeming it through the call made to Abraham, repeated many times today in People leaving their comfort zone People depending on God fully People receiving even more promises from God which only God can fulfil People receiving judgement from a holy God Even the personal sin of those who are called is being revealed The blessing is the revelation of a personal God who lives in an environment of faith. To me the story of Abraham is a story of revelation. The God of mystery, of God being transcendent in the first eleven chapters of Genesis becomes a God who progressively reveals Himself as a person to sinful man, culminating in the human revelation of Jesus Himself as the second person of God, God s very Son.
Revelation is a blessing because no one wants to reveal.
There is little or no transparency in the world of business, of government, of technology and even of family life today. The revelation is about a person, the person of God. There is little personhood today. We are surrounded by objects and by processes, but not by unique persons. We are individuals but not necessarily persons, for a person has relationships which an individual may not have.