The life of Abraham and Lot
In time their flocks and households grew too large to share the same land, and the two parted ways: Lot chose to settle in the fertile plain toward Sodom, while Abraham remained in Canaan. When Sodom was later overthrown for its wickedness, Abraham's prayer and God's own mercy delivered Lot from the destruction that consumed his neighbors.
God renewed to Abraham the promise that through his descendants every nation of the earth would find blessing, and Abraham believed him, trusting a promise he would not live to see fulfilled. His faith was proven most fully when he was ready, at God's word, to offer up his own son Isaac, foreshadowing, the Church has always taught, the greater sacrifice God himself would one day make. Abraham died in old age, satisfied with life, remembered ever after as the father of all who believe.
