Leave The Familiar Behind and Go With God

“The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your

father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”

Genesis 12:1

Go!

Leave!

Get out of here!

Any way you slice it, it was a step of faith on the part of Abram.

He was called out from his country, his people and his father’s house.

Worse yet, he was not called to a specific destination.

.  He did not have a AAA trip ticket and had not programmed an end point in his GPS.

The direction was simple: “…go to the land I will show you.”

Sure, if you read the next two verses there were some pretty phenomenal promises made.

But promises or not, it was nonetheless a huge step of faith to leave behind the familiar and follow a God who was not the god of his fathers.     

But follow he did.

Verse four tells us: “So Abram left, as the Lord had told him: and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 

I find two very interesting words in Genesis 12:1. They are “leave” and “go”.

Abram had to ‘leave’ man and ‘go’ to God.

In your walk with God, you too will be called to leave behind the familiar and go to a land promised of God.

Maybe you won’t travel to a foreign country but, to be sure, if you make Christ Lord of your life, you will move from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of God.

You will move from a culture and a pattern of life that is familiar to a new life where God will lead you moment-by-moment and day-by-day.

Are you prepared to ‘leave’ and ‘go’?

Will you leave behind the familiar and go where God sends you?

Will you let God order your steps?