Devotional 2: Gen 12-13

Genesis 12-13

Imagine for a moment that every two or three years you had to learn a new way to drive a car. No longer would you put a key in the ignition and press the gas or press the break but it would be something different and then 3 years later something complete different. Computers and technology change at a greater frequency then that and that is why, as you get older, it becomes more frustrating to change

Abram was 75 years old when he had to leave his home and go somewhere completely different. Notice that God did not even tell him anything about where he was going only that he was going.

I know for me that it sometimes becomes very hard to change how I do something and even hard to learn a different way to do an activity I have always done. So imagine what kind of changes would be in store for Abram. There would be new land, new people, new languages and new watering holes. There would be possibly new weather patterns, new stars, new everything. Abram could have told God that he did not want to learn something new; that he was comfortable in his life but he did not say that. He trusted God and did what he was told.

Every one of us is on a journey and there will be a constant stream of new things that God gives us – new rules to follow; new ways to treat people and new goals. We have spent our life trying to achieve certain things by a certain age and now God says that is no longer important – what is important is to trust Me and to follow Me. It does not matter how old you are or long you have been doing something, when God says “Go,” we need to go.