January 7, 2011 How Far Can You Trut Him?

How Far Do You Trust Him?
Read Genesis 11-13

Genesis 12: 13 Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I 5 be allowed to live because of you.

TRUST IS A big deal here! Do you trust God’s promises? If you’re like me, you do, and you don’t. Abram, who became Abraham, the man through whom God created the Hebrew nation, believed God. And then he didn’t.
Abram believed God enough to leave his home and go to a new land. That’s a big thing! But then things got tough. There was a drought. Food was scarce. What to do? Let’s go to Egypt and see if they have food for us. But, Sara, you pretend you’re my sister. Or else they’ll kill me.
Abram was protecting himself, and he put Sara at risk.. He didn’t say, “Let’s go to Egypt and see what God will do here.” He said in effect, “Let’s go to Egypt, and I’ll take matters into my own hands.”
Yes. That’s how we are. Sometimes our faith goes a distance. Sometimes it even goes a long distance, but does it go “the distance”? Does your trust keep you going when things get a bit tough or a lot rough?
God had to step in and show Abram that he could trust him with the big things—even with his life. Open your heart to God today to pray for faith to trust him in all matters—even when your life is on the line for him.


Pause and Consider: who you will trust with the crisis in your life.