Blessed with Abraham

July 28

Galatians 3:9 asserts a blessing that is not readily understood. Here it says, “Those who have faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith.” We know that Abraham is counted as father of the faithful. We know it was he who left home, family, inheritance, in order to follow God into a strange land (Genesis 12:1).

Does that mean we who believe are required to do the same thing? No. But it does mean that we must be as willing to do what the Lord lays upon our hearts as Abraham was to relinquish all that was precious to him in order to follow the command of the God who had called him.

Our calling may not require any more of us than to forsake our golf game on Sunday morning so we can attend church. It may demand nothing from us but the shame we feel because of our sin, but whatever it requires, we must be willing to leave it all behind as Abraham did.

When we have put the precious as well as the mundane things of our lives upon the altar, when we have relinquished fame, fortune, power, prestige, plans, schemes, hopes, dreams; when we have laid all at His feet, we will gain a faith adventure like Abraham’s.