Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 15:7 And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
Isaiah 41:9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;
Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
Joshua 24:2-3 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.
Luke 14:26-33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
It is one thing to be chosen and another to obey. Being a christian is a choice of all who are called. Likewise, listening to His whispers to our soul, obeying the word of God, , and following His leading and call on our lives is a choice.
Abraham was called and told to leave his place of comfort with his family(s). He obeyed and left on the promise that God would lead Him to where he was to go. He did not wait once he heard God’s calling.
Abraham had a chosen to first be near to God and had reverence of Him. Without this choice there would have been no hearing God speak into his life. Abraham then chose to obey God’s leading in his life with only the words of “go to the land I will show you”. There was no map and clear plan all laid out. There were no pictures of what the land looked like. There was no directions to follow so that he would know how to get from point “A” to point “B”. Abraham chose to act immediately. He did not wait until he could confirm everything was in place and the destination and directions were clearly laid out.
Our lives are made up of choices every single day. We can choose;
to be near to God or far away
to have reverence of Him or just passing thoughts
to want to listen to Him or turn deaf ear
to learn more of Him or neglect learning of Him
to read His word or neglect it
to honor Him or disrespect Him
to serve Him or just ourselves
to follow Him or be led by others
to worship Him or things of this world
to obey Him or disobey
to have faith in Him or trust in self
to pray to Him or not
to wait on Him or move forward on our own
to trust Him or in others
to cling to Him or in other things
to rely on Him or self
to desire Him or seek satisfaction from other things
to read His word or neglect it
to proclaim the gospel or keep silent
to love Him or have a luke warm feeling toward Him
to sacrifice to Him or keep for self
to speak of His power or be silent
to be content in His hands or be anxious and worry
to encourage others because of who He is or be silent and leave them in despair.
It is clear, we make choices everyday and they will have immediate and eternal consequences in our life and the lives of others.