"And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south." Genesis 13
Abram and his wife Sarai and his adult nephew Lot were moving out of Egypt. What had brought them down into Egypt was a famine. Abram had had a lot of possessions before (except food), and now that the famine was over, he was very rich! He could afford to pack up and move back home. It is easier to relocate when we have nothing, when we have no roots. Sometimes people move away from home to start a new life and they leave everything behind. But, when people are homesick, really homesick, they are willing to move everything they have aquired over time to move back, no matter how much baggage they have accumalated. They will pull up deep roots, if they have to, just to go home. Abram moved his family into Egypt because of hunger. Now he and his family were full, the famine was over, and everybody longed to go home. He pulled up his roots and went back to where his heart was, the land that God had given him. Abram experienced much danger in Egypt. He almost lost his wife...and his life! He lost nothing because God was with him and protected him. God gave him favor in Egypt.
May God protect us and give us favor on our journey home.
~dkg