Stepping Out!
Today’s devotional requires a little reading – so grab your bibles and get ready. I’ll wait.
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Are you ready? Okay, Go to Genesis 12 and read scriptures 1 – 9. We are going to talk about a new vision…
In these scriptures, God instructed Abram to leave his country, his relatives and his fathers house. And, God told him to go into the land that He would show him. So, first, God told him to leave but He didn’t necessarily tell him where to go…yet.
The Bible doesn’t say but I don’t imagine that leaving everything he’d ever known and walking into the UNknown was something Abram wanted to do. Often times, I think that’s how God works. He wants us to ’step out’ of our comfort zones into the callings that He has for our lives.
Comfort zones are just that – they’re comfortable. I don’t know about you but when I get comfortable, I’m usually useless. Piled up in the recliner with my jammie pants on, flicking through the tv. I don’t want to get up – I am a non-functioning creature at that point. Think about it – how are you when you’re truly comfortable?
But God seeks more from us – He wants us moving towards our goal, our callings at ALL times in one form or another.
Something else about comfort, God wanted to remove Abram from the land, the home and the people that he’d grown comfortable with. Joshua 24:2 states that Abrams family worshipped other gods. They weren’t causing Abram to dream big, Godly dreams – instead they were weighing him down.
God wanted so much more for Abram. Abram had been looking at the same vision as everyone else – the same sky, the same tent, the same people. I imagine at times it was stifiling for a godly man like Abram to share the same vision as his un-godly relatives.
Do you feel stifiled by your circumstances? Is God asking you to ’step out’? God may want to move you from your comfort zone – you know, God rarely keeps us in familiar territory! It probably won’t ‘feel’ easy to do…in fact, stepping out in faith can be incredibly hard but it CAN be done. You may not even know where you’re supposed to go next after you do step out but that’s okay! Like Abram, it’s that obedience to take the first step that dictated the rest. Trust in the One who is calling you.
Being comfortable isn’t worth missing your adventure in Christ!
I am catching up on all your posts and when I got to this one, it resonated with me today. I was explaining to someone that God was leading me into a new season in life and led me to VOVC. Their reply… “So what is it you feel God is leading you into? What new place and season is it you are referring too?” I didn’t have an immediate answer so I didn’t reply immediately. I sat there and thought and thought, and finally I came to the conclusion that I don’t know what He’s up to, but because I’ve been obedient and stepped out in faith, things are lining up in my life and breakthroughs are happening at the drop of a hat. So when I read this post I was like “gosh I wish I would have put this in that reply!” lol.