Leaning by faith!
Verse for Today: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Genesis 15:6 – Abram believed
the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness.
Usually people go to God in
prayer with a long list of needs, desires and priorities. But Abram seemed to
have received a list of intimate blessings that God prepared for him. When
Abram left his home and homeland, God promised him a better homeland here on
earth and a home beyond the horizon. Abram was a childless ‘exalted father’ and
God promised to make him a ‘father of many nations’ and a blessing to the whole
world. What more can a person desire in this life? But Abram was expected to
appropriate these promises by faith. In other words, God wanted Abram to lean
wholly on Him for the fulfillment of these promises. Abram believed God because
he saw God’s glory while in his homeland of Mesopotamia. God’s glory captivated
his heart and vision to compel him to obey the divine call to the new homeland
which personified the new home God had already prepared for him beyond the
horizon. The vision of the God of glory helped him to circumvent the hindrances
on his way to finally reach the homeland which he was to appropriate by faith.
In the meanwhile he was able to meet face to face with Melchizedek which gave
him another evidence of the living God of glory. So when the God of glory
promised Himself to Abram as his great shield and reward, the past visions
became alive in him to see that the God who appeared and reappeared to him was
worth his faith, trust and belief. There was no more shadow of doubt about the
power of God’s promises to Abram. Then Abram leaned completely on to the God of
glory and put all his trust in Him. Abram put his faith in God and not so much in
the promises of God because his faith in God also included His promises and not
the other way around. Today God appears unto us through His Word and renews all
His promises to us to challenge us to believe on Him to fulfill it all for His
glory and for our good.
Dear friend, are you after the promises
of God or do you really get fascinated with God irrespective of His promises?
Would you have followed God even without any of the promises about the mundane
things in life? Is your God worth His glory or only His promises of tangible
things in your life? Are you tempted to give greater weightage to the things
that you can get from God rather than His glorious person? Job found God worth
all that He has always been in His glory even when he suffered untold misery,
isolation, loneliness, loss, disloyalty, false accusations and depravity. Joseph
found his God worth following even when he was faced with hatred, pit, false
accusations and unlawful imprisonment. Daniel saw his God faithful to risk going
to the lion’s den. Peter and Paul found their God worthy of worship and service
in spite of all the bitter experiences they encountered. Today our God wants us
to find Him worthy of our worship and service not because of a few things He
gives us daily, but because of His captivating glory. Abram met such a God in
His glory and got himself captivated by His greatness and leaned on to Him
completely. He decided to put life at stake with the glorified God whom he met
and took His words for its worth. So God put Abram’s faith into his account in
life which made Abram righteous in God’s sight. Abram found the greatness of
the God of glory and believed every syllable that was pronounced by Him. Today
we are challenged to believe every syllable that is pronounced through His Word
and lean completely on it to be fulfilled in our lives.
Romans 1:17 – “The righteous
will live by faith”.
Thought for Today
Faith is when we lean completely on to God and His promises and nothing
else.
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