"Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I[a] may live because of you.” v.13
Read chapter 12.
Abram and Sarai are conversing here and Abram tells her a half truth. Sarai is his half-sister, the daughter of his father but not his mother (Genesis 20:12). Either way, ultimately Abram didn't trust God and feared man more than God. For surely we see God cursing Pharaoh for cursing Abram in a way of taking his wife. How cool and gorgeous must Sarah have been? She wasn't too much younger than Abram and we see he was 75 years old. A blessing from the Lord that we later know she has kids at age 90, truly given a younger body, appearance and strength. Abram seems to act wise in worldly and cultural wisdom of how to handle a matter, but wisdom of this world will never triumph the ways of God. What times have you trusted in man's wisdom than God's? When have you feared men that caused you to act a different way?
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