Training - Day 4: Genesis 10-12, Matthew 4

The passages in Genesis recount the geneology of Abram/Abraham and tells the story of God calling him to leave his family and go to Canaan. Matthew 4 tells about the temptation of Christ and the calling of the first disciples.

Both passages included stories where God said "Go" and they uprooted themselves from friends and family and obeyed - without knowing anything more than they had been asked to go.

To be honest, my first reaction is to be freaked out a little bit. The people in these stories had God speaking directly to them, what if God had been asking me to do something that I didn't hear? I suppose that why I am going into more rigorous "training" so that I am more in tune to his voice.

My second reaction is that if Jesus is asking me to do something, he has the power to make sure i get the message. I need to just be attentive and then obey. Obey because even though Abram only saw that he was losing his family, he became the father of many nations. Obey because even though James and John left their father Zebedee to fish and prepare nets by himself, they became apostles and at the beginning of the whole religion on Christianity. I'm not expecting anything so grand, but I have to trust that God sees the big picture and it's not for me to question why.