Land of Promises

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were all given a land of promise, and yet all three of them had to at least once abandon their promised land because of famines so severe that they were in danger of starving to death. It seems hard to see why the Lord would have "rewarded" His faithful servants with a land that so often could produce no food. I think the Lord sometimes wants to remind us that the stuff we care about, the blessings we think are most important, turn out to be the least valuable in the eternal scheme of things. While the land given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob may have suffered from physical famine, it nonetheless proved to be an oasis of spiritual revelation. There are more ways to be blessed and to prosper than just physically or temporally. It is a land of promise because it is the land where promises and covenants and revelations are given, and in the long run, those Spiritual blessings will last far longer than plenty of rain and good harvests.