Genesis 12:1-3
Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;
And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so you shall be a blessing;
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Although there are many truths we could discover in the above passage, the one focused upon here, is that God gives direction to man and has plans for us. Abram, as stated above, was to separate from his father and his relatives and go to a place he neither knew or, from what we read, had dreamed of going. God had a large plan for Abraham, not because Abraham deserved it, but because God, out of grace, simply chose Abraham for this plan. Note what the writer of Hebrews tells us about this call of Abraham:
Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
God has a plan. God has a plan and He plainly lays out that plan in Scripture. Regretfully, Abraham didn't have the Scriptures we have today. He was only responsible for the Word he had and that Word told him to go ... and he went. We may not always know the exact nature of God's plan for us, but we always know what God has told us in His Word. God gives us this Word so that we can follow it and fulfill those aspects of the plan(s) He has for us. Like Abraham, we have a measure of the unknown as we walk with God. But, like Abraham we have the knowledge that if God tells us to go we can go and be assured that God will bless it. God doesn't call all of us to leave our relatives, but He does for some. God doesn't always take us to a land we have never dreamed of living in, but to some, He does. God is not concerned about the GPS coordinates of the dirt we stand on, the address of the house we live in, or the city our job is located. He is only concerned if we go where He tells us to go and to do what His Word tells us each day. By faith, we follow His "revealed" Word (read each day in His Word) and He will use that revealed Word to direct us to His unfolding will. That is a truth we can rejoice in as we walk with Him.
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