Seize the Moment – Day 393
Real People!
Do you think that the characters in the Bible were perfect people who walked in their faith without fear or anxiety or disbelief or sin?
I want to quickly disabuse you of this notion. From the very beginning of the story, with the choosing of Abram, we see that God uses real people to carry out His purposes to bless the nations. Listen to Genesis 12:1-3,
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from 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 so 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.”
If you were in Abram’s shoes, sounds like a no-brainer, right? If God would so clearly talk with you and make this promise to you, then you would walk obediently, never wavering along the way. Right?
Abram certainly did waver along the way and you don’t have to wait long to see it. Genesis 12:13 records when he asks his wife to lie for him: “Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you.”
I am so glad that the Bible never exalts human nature, but rather tells the true story of how God calls real people to Himself, with all of their imperfections, so that the families of world may be blessed through God’s grace!
Seize the moment and answer God’s call. Don’t worry if you feel disqualified! God will use you if you let Him because God uses real people!
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”