We are the legacy.
We are the gift.
We are the covenant.
For Jesus has no body but ours,
no hands, no feet on earth but ours.
Ours are the eyes through which he sees the world.
Ours the feet with which he walks the pilgrim path.
Ours the hands with which he blesses and serves.
We are the legacy.
We are the gift.
What will we be?

Reading: Genesis 17:1-7,15-16

It’s amazing what small changes make a big difference. Abram, whose name meant ‘exalted father’, had embarked on a journey at first following his father, Terah, from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran and then from Haran to Canaan. But it’s in this encounter with God, at the age of ninety-nine that he changes from an ‘exalted father’ to become ‘father of many nations’. The covenant, the relationship between him and God is extended to future generations.

And this is marked by the smallest of changes – just one letter is added to his name. Hebrew writing at the time didn’t include vowels, so it takes just one letter to change ‘Abram’ to ‘Abraham’. But that one letter marks a shift in who Abraham is, and what God has in store for him.

What small change might God enable in us? It is often the small things that unlock something greater. A smile, an encouraging word, an act of care can enable someone to flourish. As you go through this week pray for God to make the small change in you that will help you to grow into the person and purpose he has placed in you. What one thing do you want to pray for now, that would release in you the potential that Go sees in you? Be ready to step into that change.

Make the little changes in me, Lord,
For I don’t like change.
Make the little changes in me, Lord,
so that I hardly notice.
Make the little changes in me, Lord
the ones that add up.
Make the little changes in me, Lord,
that make a big difference.
Make the little changes in me, Lord,
that each day I might show a little more of your unchanging love.
Amen.