“By faith Abraham, when he was
called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an
inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.” Hebrews 11:8.
“Where are you going Abraham?”
“I don’t know.”
“Excuse me? You don’t know
where you are going?”
This morning you walk out of
your house and see a moving truck at your neighbor’s. You go over and say, “I
didn’t realize you were moving. Where are you going?”
What do you think when he
says, “I don’t know”?
When we are on pilgrimage with
Jesus we don’t always know where we are going – we know the way as we walk the
way, and we see glimpses of that City, but since the life of faith is a life of
seeing the unseen, and since we are recovering our ability to see the unseen,
we often don’t know where we are going – other
than we are going where we are called to go.
While our natural eyes may dim
with age, hopefully our eyes of faith grow stronger.
Abraham was called and he
obeyed by “going out” and he “went out” and lived “as an alien in the land of
promise” (verse 9). There is a sense in which our bodies are a land of promise,
for they will be redeemed at the resurrection (see Romans 8:18 – 25; Ephesians
1:13 – 14). There is another sense in which the earth we live on is a land of
promise, for we know that the people of God will inherit the earth – the New
Jerusalem will descend from the heavens and be manifested on earth. Our
pilgrimage has many dimensions, but our destination is one – the face of God,
the Throne of God and of the Lamb.
Will I trust God in my “going
out” today?
If I insist in knowing where I
am going I may stay where I am.
What will I do? How will I
respond to God’s call?
What about you?
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