The Call of Abraham that continues into our lives...

God told Abraham to leave his country, his people and go to the land He shows and that God will make him into a great nation.  

Why a great nation?  Why not wealth or long life or prosperity?   The great nation that God must have planned was a nation that would be set apart for Him, a nation that that will know Him intimately and live on earth as it is in heaven.  

The Call of Abraham continues even today, to anyone who stops to listen to the voice of God. He calls us to go to the place that He shows us where He will make us a great nation. 

When God told Abraham that He will make Abraham a great nation, I wonder if He stopped to take a good look at Abraham and Sarah; he was old, she was barren.  Either children for Abraham and Sarah were not part of God's plan, or He may have waited to bless them with children once they started the journey.  

When God says He will make us a great nation, it could be through our children or through a people He will trust us with.  The ministry He has called us to serve, is the land that He has sent us to.  The people who He trusts us with are the nation He plans to make a great nation, a people set apart for Him.

Abraham obeyed and went to the land God showed.  Next thing he knew they were facing a great famine. Abraham sees Egypt as the solution to the famine.  Yet, as they come close to Egypt an insecurity messes up Abraham's mind.  He fears for his life, that the Egyptians will kill him to take his wife, the beautiful Sarah.  Before long, he finds a solution; pretend Sarah is his sister... now, not only will his life be spared, but a possibility of a good life in Egypt!  Just as he expected, Sarah ends up in the palace of the Pharaoh!  

A man / woman chosen by God, a person on a mission for God has an advantage; the favour of God that rests upon his/her life.  The household of the greatest superpower was powerless against the favour of God upon the life of Abraham.  Soon, Sarah was returned to Abraham with an apology from the Pharaoh and peace offerings. 

The favour of God is available to us even when we mess up and lost what is most precious to us. The favour of God fights to protect what is our's.  Favour of God comes to our rescue from the point of no-return, brings us to safety and restores to us more than what we have lost. The favour of God is upon us to make us a great nation, a nation that is set apart for Him.  The favour of God will rest upon us as we walk to the land He shows us, keep us holy and pure to be the nation who worships, obeys and live our lives on earth as it is in heaven.