Sunday Devotions: The Promised Land (Is Not America)

Genesis 15, Psalm 33, Hebrews 11

“Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD,” says this week’s psalm, “the people whom he has chosen as his heritage” (33:12). For while God “sees all humankind… he who fashions the hearts of them all,” (vv 13, 15), the Bible seems to suggest special divine favor for some smaller share of humanity.

The descendants of Abram, say. As the patriarch frets abo…