Faith to Faith

Genesis 12:1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. ² I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. ³ I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” ⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed.

So Abraham travels from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran with his father and family, and while in Haran, God comes calling and Abraham trusts God and sets off to the land of Canaan, with only His faith in God's promises as His traveling companion. But oh how faithful God was as He blessed Abraham's faith, even to the point of eternal life in heaven. Here is how the writer of Hebrews wrote about the faith of Abraham. Hebrews 11: ⁸ It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. ⁹ And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith—for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise.

Abraham's faith in God's promises resulted in God blessing him with much land and many resources, and God did this because He promised He would. What an awesome God !!!

God's promises are STILL true, but we too many times don't believe in His promises, so we run those promises through an "earthly, humanistic" filter and thus, our faith is weak. Jesus promises so much also, and our faith is an important part of receiving the blessings of those promises. God is not the problem here. We are. One result of faith leads to other results because of God's promises, stirring up our faith. Abraham's father was an idolatrous priest who was polytheistic, but Abraham's faith was in ONE GOD AND ONE FAITH. Paul wrote the following to the church in Ephesus in Ephesians 4:⁵ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all.

Maybe all we need to do is believe in the blessings of our very personal God, Jesus, and allow Jesus to work as we follow His unfailing promises. We are counted righteous because of our faith in God's promise of salvation through Jesus. That is only the beginning, and there is more to believe and more to receive if we will stop looking at our faith through humanism. Jesus NEVER fails, so live the abundant life of faith, and see Him bless again and again. One Old Testament example of faith to one New Testament reality of faith.

The Pilgrimage Continues,

David Warren