Be a blessing for others
Sunday June 8th, Genesis 12: 1 The LORD said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others. Leave all the security behind, just go. That is the word of the Lord for Abraham. It is true that Abraham did take a sizable contingent with him, but when the Lord called, he went. I tend to sit and stay, rather than go and fetch. It is more comfortable for me, and yet God can use me here also. Can God use you where you are at? Or are you surrounded by so much that must remain unchanged that even God can’t get through. It is always good to examine our lives and make sure we have some God sized holes for God to get through. Who knows what adventure awaits us when we do.
posted by Dan at 4:37 PM
2 Comments:
Pastor Dan,
It is this very notion of leaving everything behind to pick up and go that is presently causing much distress for my family. We are trying to be obedient to God's call to a radically new situation, but it is severely hampered by the considered loss of the known and comfortable.
Ezekiel was given a message to deliver (with consequences) then withheld from delivering it.
Paul was kept from going to Macedonia until the right time.
How can we know that not "just going" is disobedient or is keeping God out?
Going where? Going why? Going to whom for what? All questions to ask in prayer. Going for the sake of going is about you. Going to specifically do the will of God is about God. When the time is right, you will know it.
Pastor Dan
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