There is a corporation today whose well known slogan is "Just Do It".
In a way, that is how our response should be in our relationship with God.
God had a special relationship with Abraham.
We remember how God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son.
We also remember that Abraham was willing to obey God.
God spared Abraham's son and, according to the book of James, Abraham's willingness to obey God was counted as righteousness.
Yet there was a point much earlier in Abraham's life when God asked him to do something and Abraham obeyed.
This happened after Abraham's father, Terah, settled in Haran.
Terah settled there with his son son Abram and his daughter-in-law Sarai (God had not given them their new names of Abraham and Sarah yet).
It was there that God spoke to Abraham.
Genesis 12:1 (NET) - Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."
Notice that God did not tell Abraham where to go.
He said that He would show him.
Abraham was 75 years old when God spoke these words to him.
How did Abraham respond?
He "just did it".
He left the country with which he was familiar.
He left his father and relatives behind.
He obeyed God and, with his wife at his side, he left his old life behind him.
He did not know where they were going.
He did not know how far they were to travel.
He certainly did not know what awaited them once they got there.
All he had was God's instruction and God's promise.
Genesis 12:2 (NET) - "Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing."
Abraham obeyed.
God kept his promise.
God made Abraham a great nation.
Beyond that, Matthew's gospel begins with the human family tree of Jesus and begins it with Abraham.
Matthew 1:2 (NET) - Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
Yes, God had a special relationship with Abraham.
God wants a relationship with us as well.
What is God asking you to do?
What gift has he given you to use for Him?
Do you know what that gift is yet?
That is something you must work out with Him.
One thing I can tell you is that it may not be at all what you expected it to be.
Just follow Abraham's example and trust Him.
Trust Him completely.
In other words, "just do it".
Wherever it takes you, you can be sure of two things.
You will be where He wants you to be and you will not be there alone..
Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
http://otherbrotherjim.blogspot.com
In a way, that is how our response should be in our relationship with God.
God had a special relationship with Abraham.
We remember how God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son.
We also remember that Abraham was willing to obey God.
God spared Abraham's son and, according to the book of James, Abraham's willingness to obey God was counted as righteousness.
Yet there was a point much earlier in Abraham's life when God asked him to do something and Abraham obeyed.
This happened after Abraham's father, Terah, settled in Haran.
Terah settled there with his son son Abram and his daughter-in-law Sarai (God had not given them their new names of Abraham and Sarah yet).
It was there that God spoke to Abraham.
Genesis 12:1 (NET) - Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."
Notice that God did not tell Abraham where to go.
He said that He would show him.
Abraham was 75 years old when God spoke these words to him.
How did Abraham respond?
He "just did it".
He left the country with which he was familiar.
He left his father and relatives behind.
He obeyed God and, with his wife at his side, he left his old life behind him.
He did not know where they were going.
He did not know how far they were to travel.
He certainly did not know what awaited them once they got there.
All he had was God's instruction and God's promise.
Genesis 12:2 (NET) - "Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing."
Abraham obeyed.
God kept his promise.
God made Abraham a great nation.
Beyond that, Matthew's gospel begins with the human family tree of Jesus and begins it with Abraham.
Matthew 1:2 (NET) - Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.
Yes, God had a special relationship with Abraham.
God wants a relationship with us as well.
What is God asking you to do?
What gift has he given you to use for Him?
Do you know what that gift is yet?
That is something you must work out with Him.
One thing I can tell you is that it may not be at all what you expected it to be.
Just follow Abraham's example and trust Him.
Trust Him completely.
In other words, "just do it".
Wherever it takes you, you can be sure of two things.
You will be where He wants you to be and you will not be there alone..
Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
http://otherbrotherjim.blogspot.com
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