In today’s reading in Genesis, Abram shows wisdom and some foolishness throughout. He was foolish to not trust God in Egypt. Though I can empathize with his decision making, its easy to look at a situation and decide you need to protect yourself, but God wants us to trust in Him. God does everything for His honor and glory and we need to trust that He knows what is best for us in the light of eternity.
Conversely, Abram shows some wisdom when he responds to the King of Sodom in Genesis 14:22-23, 22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and have taken an oath 23 that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the thong of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ It would have been easy to accept the reward for Abram’s actions, but in the long run, the cost would not have been worth it. We can apply this wisdom in our lives as well by considering the cost of some of our decisions in life. Is it worth the cost of acquiring things such as wealth, notoriety, or relationships when we weigh it in the light of what should matter in our lives?
Daily Devotion 
I might be reading too much into this, but I find it interesting that after Abram got off kilter in Egypt, after he got out of alignment with God, he went back to the place where he had built an alter. It was a place of rememberence for him. A place of stability. A place where he could get realigned with his maker. I think this is very applicable to our own lives. We need to have those places in our lives that automatically realign us when we get off kilter. Whether it be an actual place or something we have written in our journals or an experience we can always go back to or a Bible verse…we need these things to put us back in balance when we throw ourselves off.
I just find this very beautiful for some reason.
On another note, I didn’t realize what a stud Abram was! He had 318 servants who happened to be warriors, and he led them into battle to rescue Lot. Can anyone say Hollywood movie? That’s so epic! He had to be strong, had to be a warrior and had to know military tactics. That’s so awesome!
And that on the heels of the whole Sarai getting married off to the Egyptian king…Abram, Abram, Abram (shaking head…). Definitely one of those major “doh!” moments in life. He must’ve really been scared…men, can you imagine knowingly marrying your wife off to some other man!? And imagine the fear of Sarai? Knowing what marrying the king meant? Good night! Abram would not have been at the top of my “I – think- you’re-awesome” list.
Ha!