“I Will Show You”

The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

“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. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Genesis 12:1-9

Many times in life we get called to something. It takes courage to leave a place, not knowing where you are being called to, but that is how it sometimes is with the Lord. We don’t always know where we are being led to, we just know we are being led away from someplace where we were once happy and content.

There is a world of difference in being called to something as opposed to be called from something. Abram knew that feeling. He was called away from something he knew to a place he had never been. He trust God, and God led him. God will do the same for you and I.

A life of obedience may not be easy, but it will be blessed.

You don’t need to know where you are going if you know God is leading.

Our Daily Bread – January 10, 2011