{"id":20965,"date":"2023-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/urc\/urc-daily-devotion12-june-2023"},"modified":"2023-06-12T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:00:00","slug":"urc-daily-devotion-12-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/urc-daily-devotion-12-june-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"URC Daily Devotion\u00a012 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday, 12 June 2023 
Abraham the Pimp<\/span><\/strong>
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Genesis 12: 10 – 20<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, \u2018I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;  and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, \u201cThis is his wife\u201d; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.  Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.\u2019  When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.  When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh\u2019s house.  And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels. But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram\u2019s wife.  So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, \u2018What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?  Why did you say, \u201cShe is my sister\u201d, so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and be gone.\u2019  And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflection<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a passage you often hear on a Sunday morning; it really isn\u2019t the type of passage you\u2019d want the kids to listen to.  Abram, the one we think of as a great patriarch, the progenitor of the Jews, and spiritual ancestor of Christians and Muslims, prostituted his wife to ensure their survival.  Not only that, he pimped her out to Pharaoh of all people – and did rather well as a result.  We don\u2019t know what Sarai thought of it all.  Her voice is silent – we read of Abram telling her what he\u2019s planning, we hear of God\u2019s displeasure (with Pharaoh not Abram!) and we read of the riches that Abram took from the deal but from Sarai we hear nothing.  <\/span>
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