MEMORY VERSE
Abram believed
the Lord, and he credited it to him as
righteousness.
Genesis 15:6
What are you willing to do for God? How far would you be willing to go? It’s a
hard question to answer when you know what’s expected of you but what if you
didn’t? What if God asked you to go through a door when you had no idea what
was waiting on the other side? Most of us would like to say that we would do
anything God asked of us but it’s a little harder when it really happens.
This is exactly what happened to a man named Abram a
long
time ago. He had moved with his father and
family from his home country of Ur of the Chaldeans to a place called
Haran. There Abram’s father died. Abram had planned to settle in Haran in his
father’s household until God intervened.
God told Abram to leave his father’s household and travel somewhere
else. He was to take his family and go
to a land that God said He would show Abram.
What would you do?
Would you leave your extended family and friends and move your own
family and everything you have even though you have no idea where you’re going?
Would you have that much faith in God?
Abram did. Abram believed that
God would keep his promises. What
promises? Read it for yourself.
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country,
your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.
(Genesis 12:1-3)
Does this mean that Abram always trusted God and did the
right thing? No. In fact, when a famine hit Canaan (the land
God led Abram to), Abram worried that his people would starve so he left the
land God sent him to and moved to Egypt!
As they got close to Egypt, Abram worried that the Pharaoh (King of
Egypt) would kill him and take Sarai, his wife.
You see, Sarai was very beautiful and Abram knew it.
So Abram came up with a plan. He told Sarai to tell Pharaoh that she was Abram’s
sister, not his wife. When she did this,
Pharaoh took her into his palace and made plans to make her his wife! He even gave Abram many nice gifts. Do you think this made God happy? Absolutely
not! God was so angry that he made
Pharaoh very sick. Somehow, Pharaoh figured
out that Sarai was
Abram’s wife and this was the reason he was so sick.
So, Pharaoh said to Abram, “Why didn’t you tell me she was
your wife? I might have made her my wife
because you lied to me! Take your people
and all your stuff and leave Egypt
immediately!” So Abram and his family had to move back to
Canaan where God wanted them in the first place. They settled in Canaan in the land of
Hebron where Abram built an altar and worshipped God.
Even though Abram made a mistake, he was still a very
faithful man.
The Bible says that when
Abram believed God, He counted it as righteousness. No man has his own righteousness but we can
be counted as righteous when we believe in Jesus and accepts His gift of
eternal life.
So, what about you?
Are you willing to do whatever God
tells you to do; go wherever God
tells you to go? It probably won’t be easy but we need to believe God will keep
His promises to us. Who knows? God may lead you on a great adventure!
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