Just before Christmas I was thinking about Abraham. I was talking about how we tend to see him as perfect yet the bible is full of little imperfections attributed to him. I was doing another study this week called Covenant and I was back in Abraham's part of the bible again studying and this thought came to me. Abraham is not on a journey for nothing. He is a metaphor of the Christian life in part. God called him to leave his familiar life to go on a journey to a promised land, a land he'd never seen, on faith and by trust. He calls each of us on a journey too ... and until we reach that promised land and our ownership of it we're aliens in a strange land just like Abraham was.
It made me realize ... we got to see Abraham's walk of faith from beginning to end. OF COURSE he was not perfect in the beginning ... we SHOULD have seen him mature over the journey, he didn't start out fully mature. Maybe you didn't think that but I guess I did. But even the father of nations started with a little trust and built it into a mature faith.
I think I shall see him differently after this.
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