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The faith that pleases God
Whenever I think about what God has in store for a man that the world around him might not know about, I’m always filled with hope. Abraham’s story is a worthy example for every believer in Christ as we’ll soon see.
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15.4, KJV).
Picture this; Abraham just gets up one day and tells his family and all who have had a relationship with him before that he’s leaving and wants to go somewhere else. And when he’s asked, he probably replies he doesn’t know but when he finds where he’s supposed to be, he’ll know. He'll probably tell those closer to him that God spoke to him and told him to leave for a land he’ll show him.
This doesn’t ring so much of a bell until we juxtapose that with our reality today. I mean, you think about it. You get up one morning, and your friend or sibling tells you they're leaving for a distant land on a journey. You ask them where the destination is, but they say God will show them. How will that sound to you? Weird, right?
But not to Abraham.
In fact, the way he went about the whole thing must have impressed Lot that he also chose to leave Haran with…
