To Know Him and Make Him Known
When God tells is to wait for something that we really want, it’s easy for us to conclude that God doesn’t really care about us and then launch a backup plan to get what we think God has denied us. These plans never end well and should drive us back to trust in God’s timing…
Facing our disappointment with God can actually help us get to know Him better – that He loves to reassure us about His good intentions, that He is willing to reveal His plan to us progressively, and that He accepts responsibility for a successful relationship with us.
When things don’t go how we expect them to go in our walk with God, we experience disappointment, which tempts us to walk away from God. Abram teaches us instead to stay, speak our complaints to God honestly, and double down on our faith in Him. ethods�Sw� �
Success can be a dangerous thing if we don’t handle it well. Abram learned quickly that all success comes from God, so the best response is to be humble, grateful, and generous. In the end, only God can adequately reward us for doing what is right.
You can’t trust someone enough to step out in faith unless you know a little bit about who they are. That’s why God revealed himself to Abram (and to us) as the God who likes to recruit us to His team, who is clearly in charge, and who focuses on the future.
God likes to interrupt our comfortable, familiar lives with crazy invitations to step out into the unknown with Him. It’s easy to refuse and just protect our predictable pleasures, but if we do, we will be missing the miracle waiting for us out in the unknown.
God chose to start cleaning up the mess we had made of His world by picking an unlikely candidate (Abram) and giving him several amazing promises, including a nation that God would use to rescue the whole world. All He asked in return was that Abram trust Him enough to follow Him. God still asks…