READING: GENESIS 13-15, JOHN 5
"Arise, walk through the length and breadth of the land for I will give it to you."
I see this picture in my head, this vision of Abram doing as God tells him and walking through the land. Breathing in the wind. Tasting the earth with his feet. Beholding innumerable strokes of color and texture and grooves of terrain with his eyes. I can imagine Abram walking with God, and God simply telling him "Take it all in. This is all for you, and you don't even know the beginnings of it all yet."
I can't explain it, really, but I've felt a vision from
God growing inside me for the past few years. It's blurry; I don't know what it is. It has simply been a faith that God is stirring up something new and great for my future, and he's promising me the possession of it, and he's asking me to take it all in. Even though I don't fully know what the promise holds. Even though I don't have the slightest clue what riches he's stored up for me. I'm making sure to take it all in so that when the promise comes, I will know full well the measures it took to make his promise whole and good and wonderful. I'm breathing in the different environments of my life. I'm tasting my experiences. I'm beholding the people and circumstances in this time. And I'm praying in faith that he will count it to me as righteousness.
I was convicted of any doubts I've ever had regarding this promise from God to me. In the middle of the grittiness of the day, it is often easy to neglect running to him for salvation and truth. Instead, we try to seek our own answers. We try to make our own truth. Jesus called out the Jewish leaders for doing just this. The Jews were seeking Scripture, but were so heavily bound to the legality of what they knew that they neglected to believe in the promise that God gave them in those same Scriptures. Jesus stood right in front of them, offering them the best, ultimate promise for life, and they could not behold it for they were too bent on their own knowledge and control.
I pray that I do not become so intertwined in answers and legality and control that I neglect to rest in the promise that God has given me. It may be unclear. It may take more faith than I have practiced yet. But I know that my inheritance is from the Lord, and his inheritance that I've yet to know is better than any of my own doing that I know now.
I see this picture in my head, this vision of Abram doing as God tells him and walking through the land. Breathing in the wind. Tasting the earth with his feet. Beholding innumerable strokes of color and texture and grooves of terrain with his eyes. I can imagine Abram walking with God, and God simply telling him "Take it all in. This is all for you, and you don't even know the beginnings of it all yet."
I can't explain it, really, but I've felt a vision from
God growing inside me for the past few years. It's blurry; I don't know what it is. It has simply been a faith that God is stirring up something new and great for my future, and he's promising me the possession of it, and he's asking me to take it all in. Even though I don't fully know what the promise holds. Even though I don't have the slightest clue what riches he's stored up for me. I'm making sure to take it all in so that when the promise comes, I will know full well the measures it took to make his promise whole and good and wonderful. I'm breathing in the different environments of my life. I'm tasting my experiences. I'm beholding the people and circumstances in this time. And I'm praying in faith that he will count it to me as righteousness.
I was convicted of any doubts I've ever had regarding this promise from God to me. In the middle of the grittiness of the day, it is often easy to neglect running to him for salvation and truth. Instead, we try to seek our own answers. We try to make our own truth. Jesus called out the Jewish leaders for doing just this. The Jews were seeking Scripture, but were so heavily bound to the legality of what they knew that they neglected to believe in the promise that God gave them in those same Scriptures. Jesus stood right in front of them, offering them the best, ultimate promise for life, and they could not behold it for they were too bent on their own knowledge and control.
I pray that I do not become so intertwined in answers and legality and control that I neglect to rest in the promise that God has given me. It may be unclear. It may take more faith than I have practiced yet. But I know that my inheritance is from the Lord, and his inheritance that I've yet to know is better than any of my own doing that I know now.