God Gives

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

GOD GIVES

Gen 13:14-18

14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you." 18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

NIV

As we already know Isaac will be the beginning of descendants as numerous as the dust, but Abram can only accept these words from the LORD on faith. It will be a seed from his own body that will start all this, however, it is the LORD who will make it happen, just as all the land his eyes see, the LORD will give Abram all that land. It is a gift from the LORD. The LORD is doing so much in the life of Abram, because Abram has always responded in the affirmative when the LORD called him from Ur, from Haran. Abram always called upon the name of the LORD, and always built altars to the LORD, as we know, Abram was a man of faith. Here is where we, once again, take our lesson from the LORD. He started the work in the life of Abram and He is going to finish His work in the life of Abram. All Abram needed to do was believe in the LORD, or have faith, and follow the LORD’s directions. There is no doubt that we believe in God, the Father, Jesus, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us. There is no doubt that we have faith, we are men of faith, and we know that it was God who started the work in us, He is the one who sent the Spirit to convict us of our sins and need to repent, or change the way we think, and He is the one who revealed Himself to us and He is the one who has been providing for us ever since, giving our places to live, our food, and everything else. He is the one who has directed our paths and has brought us where we are to worship, where there is an altar that has been built upon the Lord. All our life, it has been the Lord working for us, within us, and through us, for His glory. We live and move and have our being because of the LORD. Everything we see, smell, taste, touch, and hear is because of the LORD, for He has created all things and put us in the midst of it all, giving it all to us, for His glory. Let us always hear His voice and move as he lights our path, for the Lord gives, and gives and gives.