God is still speaking

Genesis 12:1-6

When I told Taylor how God had spoken to me about VBS her reply was, “So you know it is God speaking to you because it is not something you would want to do!”  My reply was, “Taylor, often that is true, but frequently God speaks to us about a vision that is beyond our ability or skill set.  Taylor, this is what I try to do; first I acknowledge that is not the way I think, next I ask is that thought coming from the enemy of my soul.  The way I understand the enemy; he attacks my person or tells me I deserve better, God’s Spirit does not say those things to us.  It is at this point I often tell God I do not want to do that, or I do not have the skill set to do that, but I am willing to let Him do it all through me, and Taylor that is called faith, not in us, but in God.”

So this is what God tells Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”   Remember that he is not reading the Bible, there is no Bible, he is not being taught about God at temple, there is no temple, there is no ten commandments, but God has placed a void in Abram’s life that only God can fill and Abram must have been looking and open to his Creator, because he listened when God spoke to him.  Verse 2, “And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”  How could God put all of his plans into one man, and in that question lays the wisdom of God.  Jesus tells us in the Revelations, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one.  I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.”  (Revelation 1:17b and 18)  In the Revelation to John, the last chapter of the Bible, verse 13, Jesus says; “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”  Jesus is the Creator of what we call time, in heaven we will have no need of time, Jesus is the Creator of time, He has seen it’s beginning and it’s end, so He already knew what kind of man Abram was, it was Abram who had to walk by faith in the God he could not see, and trust that God was telling him the truth. 

You and I have a lot of information, we are blessed to have the written word of God, and we have many historical records, but like Abram, each day we must listen, and act by faith on the promises of the God that we cannot see.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice