Genesis 12.1-4a
I will follow You
Go away from my family? But aren’t they the nursery You grew me in? Didn’t You teach me everything I know through them? Wouldn’t I be neglecting the very roots You appointed for society if I forsook my own relatives?
Oh, but My dear child, your concerns are very real and I am so glad You trust in Me enough to bring them to Me. But You have nothing to fear. I am not calling you t forsake your nation, still less your relatives. I am moving you on, for a special purpose which your faith has discerned through the clouds of dreams and doubts. And your hope is not here in this life. It is in a place where one day you will see your relatives and compatriots again – and what’s more, that will be in a heavenly kingdom where there will be no more family quarrels, no more national strife, no more sin, no more sorrow, no more death, but only love, joy, peace, and all the good things they taught you to long for and your faith enabled you to strive for.
And so “by faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going” (Hebrews 11:8).
*************************************************************** « C'est par la foi qu'Abraham, lors de sa vocation, obéit et partit pour un lieu qu'il devait recevoir en héritage, et qu'il partit sans savoir où il allait. » (Hébreux 11:8).
*************************************************************** “Abraham vertrouwde op God. Toen God hem zei dat hij zijn vaderland moest verlaten en naar een land moest gaan dat God hem zou geven, gehoorzaamde hij. Maar hij wist niet eens waar hij naar toeging.” (Hebreeën 11:8).
James Pitts
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