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By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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Understanding is good—it is something that the Word instructs us to greatly desire and to seek. {Pro.4:5} Yet, there are times that God will call us to do something without telling us why, without giving us understanding. And please remember that it is written ‘to obey is better than sacrifice’ as the prophet Samuel said to King Saul. {1Sam.15:22}

Abraham, the example of faith and obedience as seen in so many places in the bible, was often called by the Lord to do things that could not even possibly have made sense to him. The greatest of those would of course have to be: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” {Gen.22:2} As we know, Abraham proved willing to obey the Lord who then provided a different sacrifice.

The Lord did not sit him down and take time to explain that this would be an amazing living prophesy of the greatest event that would ever take place in the history of fallen mankind. It is indeed the foreshadow of when God the Father would offer His only begotten Son Jesus on the cross of Calvary! God said it—Abraham obeyed it. Hear and obey! Praise the Lord.

Our heavenly Father knows the end of the matter, which by the way is better than its beginning, {Ecc.7:8} while we can only see the “now” of the matter. Or as the apostle Paul put it, now we see in a mirror dimly, we know in part. {1Cor.13:12} So we must indeed walk by faith and not by sight. {2Cor.5:7} The world often says if I see it I will believe it! The Word says if you believe it you will see it! God calls into being that which does not exist. {Rom.4:17} That is how we get the ‘better’ end of the matter!

“While Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.’ But He said, ‘On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.’ (Luke 11:27-28)


HEAR AND OBEY, THERE IS NO OTHER WAY