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Faith for the Journey: Daily Meditations on Courageous Trust in God
Copyright 2014 by Charles Swindoll. All rights reserved.
Content taken from Abraham by Charles R. Swindoll, published in 2014 by Tyndale House Publishers under ISBN 978-1-4143-8063-6.
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Swindoll, Charles R.
Faith for the journey : daily meditations on courageous trust in God / Charles R. Swindoll.
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Content taken from Abraham by Charles R. Swindoll, published in 2014 by Tyndale House Publishers under ISBN 978-1-4143-8063-6.
ISBN 978-1-4143-9983-6 (sc)
1. Trust in God Christianity Meditations. 2. Faith Meditations. 3. Abraham (Biblical patriarch) I. Title.
BV4637.S95 2014
242'.2 dc23 2014012191
ISBN 978-1-4964-0275-2 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-4964-0274-5 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-4964-0276-9 (Apple)
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To finish the moment, to find the journeys end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.... Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
W E TEND to think of faith as something we need only when the future becomes uncertain. After all, when we have a promising career, plenty of money in the bank, and a plausible five-year plan, who needs faith? We exercise faith only when circumstances elude our control or when darkness shrouds the road ahead. Thats when we turn to God, asking Him to guide us around any pitfalls we cannot see.
That kind of thinking has two fatal flaws. First, faith is not hoping for something to become true. To exercise faith is not to entrust a wish to God. Lord, keep me healthy. Lord, help me earn a good living. Lord, steer me clear of suffering. Those are things you would say to a genie or a fairy godmother. The Old Testament and especially the story of Abrahams journey with God defines faith as obedience. Faith is doing what God tells us to do, even when His instructions appear dangerous or might cause us to experience loss or suffering. As author Philip Yancey describes it, Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Second, faith is not something we use to control future events. Faith is for today. This very moment. The one youre experiencing right now. Faith is asking the question, what does the Lord want me to be doing right now, in this moment? and then doing what we know is pleasing to Him. Thats what we see through most of Abrahams nomadic life. In each episode of the patriarchs life story, he had to choose between Gods words and some other influence: fear, his own desires, family pressure, danger, greed... the same distractions we encounter today.
As you set aside time for these brief glimpses into Abrahams story, forget the past and ignore the future. Become a faithful steward of the present moment. Seek Gods will. Hear Gods Word. Use these moments to ask what God wants of you, and then just do it.
If you do, you will remain on course in your journey toward the best possible future.
Chuck Swindoll
Fall 2014
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM
Leave your native country, your relatives, and your fathers family, and go to the land that I will show you.
GENESIS 12:1
G ODS CALL of Abram began with an imperative a clear command. God told him to leave his country for a land that He would show him... sometime later. To receive the promised blessings, Abram had to leave behind everything he relied on for safety and provision homeland and relatives and trust that God would honor His commitment. The call he received as a nomad for the Lord was a call to move, a call to go, a call to leave behind the comfortable and the familiar.
Put yourself in Abrams place for a moment. Youre roughly seventy-five years old, with a wife in her mid-sixties. Youve lived in one place your whole life. You have an established homestead in a familiar city with family and a community youve known since birth. Suddenly, the Lord appears to you in a manifestation you cannot deny as authentically supernatural, and He tells you to pack up and hit the road for an undisclosed destination.
Everything within us recoils from making big changes without thorough planning. Most of us need to see where were jumping before committing to a leap. But God called Abram to obey this call without complete information. Abram didnt know where he was going, so he couldnt trust in a well-thought-out, long-range plan. Nevertheless, the Lord gave Abram sufficient information to make a reasonable decision.
When Abram encountered the Lord, he knew that God was real. The undeniable echo of Gods voice left him no room for doubt. While his neighbors thought he had lost his mind, Abram had good reason to trust in God, even without knowing every detail of the plan.
Has the Lord ever called you to do something without giving you all the details up front? What helps you trust Him, even when you dont have all the information?
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?
PSALM 56:4
God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
[Abram] took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran and headed for the land of Canaan.
GENESIS 12:5
A FTER SPENDING much of his life perhaps from birth in Ur of the Chaldeans, Abram was instructed by God to go to a place to be disclosed later. Sadly, he didnt respond with complete obedience; he obeyed only in part. When he left Ur, Abram brought along his father, Terah, and his nephew Lot.
Abram moved in the general direction of Canaan the land God had promised him but he traveled no farther than Haran at first. The text doesnt specify why they stopped there, but I have a theory. The moon god, Sin, whom Abrams family worshiped, had two principle seats of worship: Ur of the Chaldeans and Haran. It wouldnt be hard to imagine that Abrams father, a lifelong devotee of the moon god, couldnt tear himself away from the deitys sanctuary in Haran. When Abrams father decided to linger in Haran, Abram should have bade his father farewell and pressed on to Canaan.
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