In the New Testament we find Jesus calling His disciples to leave all and follow Him; they left their boats and nets and their beloved ones, to follow the Lord and serve Him. But long before that, at a time when there was no Bible, no church, no servants of God, no anointing of the Holy Spirit as an abiding experience, Abraham, responding to God’s call, left everything to follow the God of glory.
When God called Abraham out, there was no promise or plan for his return. He had to “burn the boat and the bridge behind” as he left his homeland. “And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned” (Heb 11:15).
“Get thee out…I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing” (Gen 12:1-2). “Get thee out” and then (a) I will show thee… (b) I will make of thee… thee (c) I will bless thee (d) I will make thy name great and (e) thou shalt be a blessing. How sad it is that many children of God, are losing manifold eternal blessings by compromising with the world!
Abraham obeyed and “got out”; and all along, his tent life showed that he was willing to move out any time the Lord told to him. How willing are we to obey the Lord and give up the things of the world to follow the Lord more closely?
“Take take the world, I covet not its joys,
Take, take the world with all its empty noise,
Mine is a wealth no moth nor rust destroys,
Fellow-heirs with Jesus for ever.”
– Taken from Morning Manna – Thoughts for Daily Devotion
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