Old Abram was blest and Sarai was, too,
When God called their names and said, "I choose you!"
I'll give you descendants like stars up above —
Too many to count, and a sign of my love."

That old couple laughed at what God might do.
Was what they had heard impossibly true?
For they had no children to carry their name —
Yet God promised nations would rise out of them.

God promised to them a life that was new:
A new set of names, a new future, too.
They faithfully trusted — that husband and wife;
Soon Sarah and Abraham found a new life.

O God, in your love, a whole nation grew;
You called them to be a blessing for you.
You sent them, you send us, to be this world's light.
Your promise still shines like the stars in the night.