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Genesis 12- The Father of many

I love when I get a call from someone I have not talked to you in a while. It is nice to hear their voice and to see what they are up to in life. It is nice to be able to remember some good memories. That is when I like to answer the phone but I hate when I get phone calls from a wonderful telemarketer. They require me to listen to them and they want usually some kind of money from me and I tell them I do not have any to give them, they usually do not believe me. In Genesis 12 Abram (who we know as Abraham) gets a call from God. Now it was not a phone call and it was not someone trying to sell him something, but it was God wanting to show someone his great plan for this universe. He tells Abram to leave the land of Ur and he will make him a great nation and he will bless him and make his name great, so that he will be a blessing.

The thing that is amazing at this passage of Scripture is that Abram took his wife Sarai and all his possessions and left like God asked. The only thing is the journey that Abram went on required him to go to Egypt. Abram was somewhat afraid of this and he lied about Sarai being his wife. He said she was his sister. Why did Abram lie about who Sarai was? Sarai was beautiful and he thought Pharaoh would have him killed because his wife was so pretty. It is so funny that he would be so afraid of Pharaoh and yet God spoke to him and let him know of this plan which none of it happened yet. Well, Pharaoh wanted Sarai as his wife but God stepped in and gave Pharaoh some very bad heart-burn and he realized something is not right. God had a plan and it so true that it was on God’s time. Abram became anxious and decided to go his own way but God who is in control stopped things for the time. We love to think we know what God wants in our life. We even have the tendency to jump start God’s plan  by making our decisions without asking God first what his plan is.

Think About It

God has called us according to his purpose. We may not have to leave our houses and countries but God does call us to move. This moving is different than leaving a location, this moving is doing the work that God has called us to do. Matthew 28:19 tells us to go and make disciples of all nations. We need to be going and not just sitting and doing nothing. God personally has called you.I always need to ask myself, “God what do have me to do in this life?” and “How do you want me to do it?” If God has me to do something or go somewhere and I do not do it, it is sin.  James 4:17 says, “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Sometimes this moving is just also waiting on God. Do you find it hard to wait on God’s time? You know, his timing is always the best timing.  Just read Philippians 4:6-7.

We need to be patient on God but also willing to move when he tells us to.