Picking up and Leaving

God told Abram to leave town and walk until He told him to stop. I always wonder how that conversation went at home? "dear we're moving. Where to babe? I'm not sure yet but I'll tell you when God tells me more. Ok?"

I remember when I believed that God was calling me to the mission field and I called Dawn over to the kitchen table. She knew that we were in trouble by the look on my face." What's going on?"" Well, I've been thinking..."

We hear nothing from Sari in this account in Genesis 12. We just see a big move. From home to nowhere in just a few days. Life would never be the same. The family was being left behind. And all for what purpose? So that Abram could prove his obedience to God. God ends up promising Abram a land, an offspring and a blessing, which in the end Abe never gets.

Well, he did get the offspring and he was blessed in many ways. The land promise wasn't fulfilled until Joshua's time. Like Noah, I tend to put Abram on a spiritual pedestal. He was a patriarch after all. He was the first of his nation. The father of the Jews.

In reality, Abram was just a man who obeyed God. Most of the time. Radical isn't it?

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