Today we are going to do two stories involving Abram. Abram believed and trust God. Our second story the ‘Now Conundrum’, is to show that even Abram had struggles on his faith journey, so we too should not be to dismayed if we stuff up on our faith journeys.

Genesis 12 verse 1: “The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”

God called Abram and promised, “I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. This was a promise that was both spiritual and physical. God was talking about the Hebrew nation, and through Abram descendants, the Messiah Christ Jesus would come.

Abram was about 75 years old when God called and made him this promise. The only trouble was when God made the promise he and his wife Sarai had no children, and with no thought of children because they were both old, it  took 25 years for the promise to happen.

Faith is about trust and taking risks and for Abram, it meant leaving all he had ever known to go on a Faith journey. The journey had no clear destination and that is a journey that in Accepting Our Lord and Our Friend our life can become.

Along with his trust and faith in God, Abram sometimes tried  to make things happen quicker than what God was doing. Abram to help God with the concept that he would have a child took a detour by fathering Ishmael with Sarai maid Hagar.

Abram and Sarai did have a child of there own as God promised, they called him Isaac, Genesis Chapter 21.

God doesn’t need that kind of help when he promises something. If God comes knocking is there an area in all our lives where we would be hesitant about taking risks for our faith Journeys.

Our Lord and Our friend is looking for willing people because the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few, accept the challenge  of risk taking faith today.

Our second story today is as we said “The Now Conundrum’ where we use Abram as an example, to help us all understand, God’s promises are eternal, and he only needs our trust and faith, and not unnecessary help from any of us, to fulfill them.

God Bless.

O F J.