Water Your Worth

How many of you automatically started hearing the song you learned in Sunday school as a child upon reading this title? (Father Abrabam, had many sons, had many sons had father Abraham, and I am one of them and so are you, so let’s all praise the Lord!) If you hadn’t, now you do and you just might be singing it all day now.

Most people know Abraham’s life and how God chose him to be blessed in making many nations from and that God also asked Abraham to show his commitment to Him through the very tough request of giving his son, Isaac, to Him as an offering. Most people of various religions know of Abraham and this truth of nations coming from him and while that is awesome, there is so much more depth to this man, the connection with God and how much was established. The actual journeying, the communing, the waiting, the trusting, the obedience, his only son… Does anyone else get just wow’d every time they go deeper in life and with God?

I will tie it all together but want to say this, my child and I do not watch television. Someone asked me once, “Don’t you get bored?” and my response was without a pause, “Have you read the Bible? There is no way to get bored, it is more entertaining than most shows!”. It is the absolute truth there are so many times God leads me to pick up a book in the Bible and to see what He needs me to see and recently He sent me back to Genesis. I had reached a level of maturity in reading the Bible that I was able to see this book broader and deeper. I will go in to some more realizations another time, today I want to focus on Abraham.

Abraham was first known as Abram and was from the lineage of Shem whom was a son of Noah. Through all lineages you will find that there is a spilt between good and evil – this will be a post soon and just giving you a little teaser preview – Shem was blessed by his father and established a righteous lineage of Noah. One day, God presented Himself to Abram and said that it was time for him to give up what he knew, take only a few and go to a land brand new. God set him apart and asked for His son Abram to be obedient through action, an action that made no sense to most but required Abram’s heart and focus.

It seems like a lot of us tend to bypass or just brush off this very important aspect in not only Abraham’s life but also our own necessity to connect with our Father. I love and get so fascinated with how the word is bridged and connected between the old and new, how it shows us that God and His son Jesus are in unison through all the creation and history. One profound way this is shown is how God asked for Abraham to show that his love to Him was greater than to his offspring through the obedience of the attempted offering of his son. Then we get to see and experience just how great our Father’s love is to us by how He gave His son to live among us as a human, to create a righteous path for us, to sacrifice His son Jesus and then show His even greater love in how He brought Him through the darkness and back in to very real living for us to feel, know and follow. I have said it many times before, God’s greatest desire is that we are connected to Him and living His creation with Him.

While all of that is deep, beautiful and even mysterious, again I want to step back to the point when Abraham was called Abram still. The level of trust, obedience and faith that is required to go deeper in life with God should not be brushed past casually. The world wants to keep us from knowing our Father in such a way, there is literally every kind of turn and option to separate us from the one that wants and loves us more than anything. God wants us to know that He is the one that gives us breath, keeps our heart pumping and is the incredible architect of every little and big piece of matter in the tapestry of all creation. He never wanted us to leave His side, the garden or our daily walks with Him. This is so important that He has made sure that it is written about in the Bible repeatedly in various ways and Abram is a great example to look to.

Leave all you know, carry only a few things, take only a few people that you know, walk with the Lord. Trust that He is with you, will lead, provide and that He has a greater plan for you than you can ever begin to imagine. This is the foundation of faith, the root of our calling to fill the void in our heart and to connect out spirit with out life force giver. There is literally no way to go in to a relationship with our Father without some degree of this kind of journey. As I felt God get my attention to this aspect of my own journey, I myself started feeling the honor in shifting my perspective to not just journeying with God but to being on a very real Abrahamic journey – a pilgrimage to be closer and ever closer with the one that knows and loves me most, a walk of shedding the world out of me as I seek to be more in alignment with Him that made me…

I will stop before I get too personal here and close with a question. How deep is your love? How much do you long for that connection? If our Father asked you to leave it all and walk toward, for and/or with Him… could you?… would you?

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You are worthy!