Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
We read of Abraham going to Egypt and prior to entering he has a plan to protect his life. His plan was made out of fear. His plan was made out of wanting no harm. I take this as an example of how easy it is, in our lives, to trust God for parts of it and other parts we do not even consider putting it into His hands. I wonder why it is that we limit our trust, faith, and reliance in the awesome and all powerful loving hands of God.
God certainly does not change. God’s steadfast love and protection do not waver. What He has begun and continues to do in our lives is in His more than capable hands. In Ephesians it says that “He can do more than we ask and much more than we can imagine.” So why do we go down paths without taking time to seek God and His plans. If God is for us who can be against us.
God created all there is by speaking them into existence. He has split the Red Sea, brought water from a rock, bread from heaven, calmed storms, healed the deaf, blind, and sick, brought back dead to life, redeemed the lost, shut the mouths of lions, saved men from fire, and has given us precious promises of “the battle is not yours,” “never leaving or forsaking us,” and “where you are there I am also,” ….
Be mindful of thoughts and plans that are self in nature and contrary to trusting God.
