Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. … and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Genesis 12:1, 3b
God charged Abram to go because when he did, all the earth would be blessed as far as Abram's life reached.
Where is home for you? How is home for you?
How far does your life reach?
What spaces, places, locations do you frequent or wish you could reach?
To be human means to reach out and participate in politics, education, commerce, sometimes religion—all those endeavors outside the four walls of home that converge to create the fabric of society.
How far does your life reach? How far does my life reach?
Do you typically reach onto the edges of your existence or into the center of the action?
Do you reach out and reach in, halfway between center and margins so you don't need to label yourself either insider or outsider? Do you covet the threshold, neither back where you began or in that new place you haven't seen—but God will show you when you get there?
How far does your hospitality reach? Do you distinguish between strangers and friends?
Reach out! Connect with insiders, outsiders, strangers, and friends whose lives reach out and touch yours.
Where is home for you? How is home for you? Comfortable or not?
Reach out!
Go from your home, your comfort, and your kindred, to the place and the people God will show you (when you get there…) because in you they will be blessed.
We were just talking about this topic at work recently, discussing the impact of our lives and redefining success by God's standards. The work of the Kingdom is often quality over quantity and not everyone will touch the lives of millions but that doesn't mean we aren't exactly where we are supposed to be. Thanks for sharing!
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ReplyDeleteand the pain does ebb and flow,
but there's comfort in the fight,
and I do not want to go
to that place so bright and fair
that God has prepared for me;
it is not that I don't care
about His grace, but want to see
the sunrise on a new tomorrow,
the tousled hair of my dear wife.
I want the joy and all the sorrow
that have been part of my life
while I breathe and while I can
in spite of Our Lord's master plan.
It is good to think of such things - whose lives do I touch? Who do I share my world with? Who does God call me to reach out to? Thank you. I am a follower of Jesus and my home and family are far and wide.
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