" Go forth from your country, and 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 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."
So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him;..... "
-Genesis 12:1-4a
God speaks to Abram in a powerful way here in Genesis. He tells Abram to leave everything he knows everything thats familiar and everything that he's worked his life for in this verse. God ask's Abram to give up what he had and move from a place of "safety and stability" to what God was going to put in his life. Giving up what he saw for what he couldn't! We did the same thing when we trusted Christ as our Savior. We give up living this life for ourselves and start living it for Christ who bought us at a price and our bodies and lives are here to worship Him.(1 Corinthians 6:17-20) Abram's response is what I want us to see most of all though. God speaks and then Abram obeys! He moves! God made the first move he asked Abram to give up the life he saw and go for the life he could give him....if he in return made a move.
Accepting Christ is a free gift and we can never do anything to deserve it, we can never forget that and thats not what I'm talking about. When we accept that free gift we enter into a relationship with him. We become part of Christ's Bride in a relationship. Are our lives reflecting that we are in a relationship with Christ and we are his bride? Every relationship we have takes maintenance to grow and it's not always easy. Sometimes we will go through hardship and sometimes we will experience exciting happiness but through it all, through this relationship we know one thing.....we belong to God. God made the first move and he often does in our lives....now we need to move towards him with our lives.
It's time for Movement.
