Have you been told something would be yours even though someone else owned it at the time? Did you wonder how it would come to pass? Did you trust that it would happen? Or did you blow it off as someone blustering when they said it to you?
Some things can appear to be impossible. If someone told you that a castle would be yours one day, you would probably laugh it off as being absurd. Yet, if the person was someone of power and someone you trusted, you might have a wee bit of wishful thinking that it might happen.
Abram entered a foreign land that was already populated with people. He may have thought of himself as the stranger, the outsider, and that he could never overcome them. Yet, God appeared to him and told him his offspring would occupy the land. Abram must have thought it impossible, even if he believed God could do anything. After all, he had no children at this time and was seventy-five years old. He was embarking on God’s call with his wife and nephew. Things may have not looked bleak, but they sure didn’t look like he would be conquering nations.
When God calls us, we may not think things look promising. However, we must remember that God can do anything. If he calls us to it and promises it will be successful, we can believe God will fulfill his promise. Our task is to take the next step, to follow God’s call, and to continue to believe he will deliver. We don’t have to know every step along the way. We simply need to take the next step.
I pray we all choose to answer God’s call. I pray we trust God will deliver on his promises. I pray each one of us choose to take the next step as we follow the path God has prepared for us. Answer God’s call. Trust God to deliver. Trust God’s promises. Take the next step.
Genesis 12:6-7 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Marty Pressey 