Have you ever asked yourself what a baby thinks as they take their first steps...learning to walk...taking one, two steps, then falling down...looking up and seeing how easy the grown ups make it look. Have you ever thought to yourself... I used to be like that...once upon a time I too was learning to walk... I too, took two steps then fell down...but here I am today...walking...how easy it seems now...but how hard it was then...learning to balance myself, carry my weight...
Recently I was asked to preach at church..and the main theme was on the life of Abraham. As I prepared, I was surprised at what I was learning...you see, for the Christian, Abraham is esteemed very highly...he is after all..the father of faith...
I was struck by the baby steps he took early on is his walk with God... Usually when we read the story of his call in Genesis 12...we forget what is written about him in the preceding chapter...which is highlighted by Stephen in Acts 7... Abraham obeyed God by faith and it was credited to him as righteousness...i.e. he was considered to have met all of God's requirements..yet he did not achieve this at once...
Abraham was called to leave his country (Ur of the Chaldeans), his relatives (his brother, cousins, Sarah's relations), his father's house (Terah and Lot his nephew)...he did the first quite easily...was only able to break off from his father after Terah died...and it took disagreements between Lot's servants and his for him to break off from his relatives...but he took the initial step and progressed through the others.
Today we see Abraham as the guy who left everything and ventured into the unknown in obedience to God...but that didn't happen in a day...
The same can be said of all the great men and women of the Bible, they each had their struggles, all of them had to take baby steps, learn to walk with God. They did not just arrive, they took steps...however small and no matter how many times they fell/failed, they pushed on...
Will you take after their example? Take baby steps, learn to walk...and not be discouraged by any "failure"...and not be intimidated by how easy others make it seem...but take the first steps along your journey. When you fall...get up...for as scripture says "will a man fall and not get up?"...trust not in ur own ability...but in Him who is able to establish you, He who will keep you from stumbling and present you perfect on the day of His coming...take the first steps...
Recently I was asked to preach at church..and the main theme was on the life of Abraham. As I prepared, I was surprised at what I was learning...you see, for the Christian, Abraham is esteemed very highly...he is after all..the father of faith...
I was struck by the baby steps he took early on is his walk with God... Usually when we read the story of his call in Genesis 12...we forget what is written about him in the preceding chapter...which is highlighted by Stephen in Acts 7... Abraham obeyed God by faith and it was credited to him as righteousness...i.e. he was considered to have met all of God's requirements..yet he did not achieve this at once...
Abraham was called to leave his country (Ur of the Chaldeans), his relatives (his brother, cousins, Sarah's relations), his father's house (Terah and Lot his nephew)...he did the first quite easily...was only able to break off from his father after Terah died...and it took disagreements between Lot's servants and his for him to break off from his relatives...but he took the initial step and progressed through the others.
Today we see Abraham as the guy who left everything and ventured into the unknown in obedience to God...but that didn't happen in a day...
The same can be said of all the great men and women of the Bible, they each had their struggles, all of them had to take baby steps, learn to walk with God. They did not just arrive, they took steps...however small and no matter how many times they fell/failed, they pushed on...
Will you take after their example? Take baby steps, learn to walk...and not be discouraged by any "failure"...and not be intimidated by how easy others make it seem...but take the first steps along your journey. When you fall...get up...for as scripture says "will a man fall and not get up?"...trust not in ur own ability...but in Him who is able to establish you, He who will keep you from stumbling and present you perfect on the day of His coming...take the first steps...
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