Genesis 23:3-4 - And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
In the world but not of the world! Though the sons of Heth considered him "a mighty prince among us" (verse 6), Abraham's view of himself among them was not so. He maintained his separation from them and confessed that he was a stranger and a pilgrim (Hebrews 11:13).
If the world embraces us, let us not be flattered enough to embrace it back!
Genesis 23:17-18 - One tiny little patch of land is all that Abraham ever owned among all the land God promised him. Promises fulfilled in God's time, not ours!
VM
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