Imagine God telling you to get a moving truck, pack up all your stuff and your family, and start driving, not knowing where you are going. Would you do it? Would you have the faith to believe God, even if God didn’t tell you exactly what was going to happen?
Abram did. He obeyed God and went even though he didn’t know where he was going. He was willing to trust God beyond where he could see. Will we have faith to follow God even if we have to go to unfamiliar places?
We want to know all the answers before we will go where God is trying to send us, but the reality is most times we have to move our feet before we can see the next step. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” We have to believe the promises of God enough to go where God leads us even if it is unspecific and unfamiliar.
This message is excerpted from the faith reflection “Discerning as we go” by Tiffany C. Chaney in the February 2015 Café online magazine.
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