Day One: Gen. 12:1-4 The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your
relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will
make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, I will curse
those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed
through you. So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him.
Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
THE
AVERAGE TEENAGER has 265 friends on Facebook. For each and every one of those
Facebook friendships, one person had to send a friend request, and the other
had to accept the friend request.
Simply
knowing about someone does not make you Facebook friends. The only way you can
become friends with someone on Facebook is if one of you take the lead and send
a friend request. Then, the friendship is confirmed only when the other party
accepts that request. Notice the process. One person initiates the request, and
the other person accepts the request. Until both of those elements are present,
there is no friendship.
This
process is true when cultivating a relationship with God as well. The key difference
lies in the initiating phase. When it comes to having a relationship with the
creator of the universe, He is always the one in pursuit. He is the one that
extends the request, and we are the ones who are then required to either accept
and embrace that relationship, or to simply ignore His request.
God
desires and initiates relationships with His creation. When He pursues us, we
must be willing to follow Abram’s example and do as the Lord tells us, for the
sake of His glory!
PAUSE
AND REFLECT
▷▷Why
is it important to understand that God initiates relationships with people?
▷▷How
does this truth impact our understanding of God’s character?
▷▷How
should we respond to God’s pursuit?
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