Do you like to travel? Do you like to visit places across the country? Do you like to see foreign lands? Do you like to interact with other cultures? Are you willing to move your family and everything you own to a foreign country? Will you go if you are commanded to go?
Some of us like to travel while some prefer to stay home. Some of us who travel will only travel within our own country. Others like to travel to foreign countries. We want to see the sights and experience other cultures. We often think about sampling other foods.
Only a few will move to a foreign land at God’s command. The truth is, God doesn’t call all of us to do this. I’m sure his calling is based on his knowing our hearts and minds. He knows those who are willing. He knows who will accomplish the work he is calling them to. He knows who he has gifted for the work.
God called Abram to pack up his belongings, his family, and his livestock to move to a foreign land. Abram is credited with faith because he followed God’s calling. It was a very large undertaking. They traveled over 600 miles on foot. It would have taken them roughly a month to make the trip to Canaan. The logistics of driving livestock, finding food and water, and negotiating safe passage with the inhabitants of the land would have been challenging to say the least. Add in that Abram was 75 years old and the challenge increases.
God doesn’t call all of us to travel to foreign lands, but he does call us. He may be calling us to merely walk across the street. He may be calling us charitable work. His call always includes showing others who he is through the work he has called us to, even if it is an everyday job. Will our faith show through? If we are following God’s calling, it will.
I pray we all hear God’s calling on our lives. I pray we follow God’s calling throughout our lives. I pray each of us allow our faith to show every day, thereby showing God to others. Hear God’s calling. Follow God’s calling. Let your faith show. Show God to others.
Genesis 12:1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”
Marty Pressey 