Have
you considered the possibility that, like Abram, God is about to take you to a
"new country", one that will establish your legacy with Him? Are you willing to go off on a Godventure
that could be the end of the old you?
When God told Abram to go, he gave him no information about the
Godventure except what he would be in the end!
It was "go" and then "here is your legacy". All the between parts were blank pages. Where he would stop on day twenty-nine, what
he would do in year ten, how his wife would react to month forty-three were all
dark as night to him and they will be for you too. The Lord will not give you a word in advance
about the troubles you will face on your Godventure nor your triumphs along the
way. He will though tell you, "I
will be with you!" There were
perhaps plenty of other believers in Ur when Abram was sent away...maybe even
hundreds of them but none of them gained the legacy with God Abram acquired
when at seventy-five that one particular old man believer left on his Godventure. Perhaps it seems too late in life for God to
make something new of you. Maybe you
feel inadequate for the task, not prepared for your Godventure. The Lord did not give Abram wiggle room to
assess His skill sets or resources. He
simply presented the Godventure and told him what he would be when it was all
done. Faith is not a tool in your
spiritual bag of tricks; it is your reaction to God sending you. God will not push you down the hill to get
you going. He will wait for you to take
that step forward but when you do take that first step, He will begin to give
you a supernatural burst of power you had not felt before you went with Him on
this new way of His. There was no
hesitation in Abram when the call came to him to leave and there mustn't be any
in you either. The longer you muddle
through your apprehensions, the harder it will be to finally pick up and go
when you finally do go and the journey will have unnecessary trials and
troubles that you would not have had to face if God didn’t need to rebuild in
you the faith you had before you doubted.
Then
the Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your
father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation and will bless
you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. Genesis 12: 1-2 NIV
