Chapter 12 of Genesis is a blueprint. It tells us that Abram (Abraham) left his country and went where God told him to go. This was God’s ‘blueprint’ plan and purpose, which is also vitally instructive for us today. God has an individual plan and purpose for each and every one of us. We may not like much what sometimes happens, but God will bring good out of it for us, we just don’t know when or how. So we just need to submit to God’s wisdom, knowing that God WILL keep his promises, and that our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever – he does not change. He loves us too much to simply let us live our lives in the ways that we often know are not good, and certainly not best (but sometimes we hide this, even from ourselves).