A Bible Study is suppose to generate thoughts that make you go ......Humm. I had one of those moments during the Tuesday night study. The group is now at Romans 9:1-29. The title of the Lesson was "The Potter & His Clay from the Lifeguide bible study "Becoming New in Christ" by Jack Kuhatschek.
The chapter opens with Paul being filled with sorrow for his people because they did not receive Christ and he reminds us of their heritage and the blessings that God bestowed upon them as his children. He goes on to define who are God's children. The summary of this lesson is we are God's children. Why? Because we are born of his spirit; his spiritual children.
My thought took me back to when God spoke to Abraham and told him to leave Haran and his family and his father's house and go to the land he had promised and God would make him a great nation. He was obedient in part. He did leave, however, he took his nephew Lot along with him. It took time and a separting; from Lot. Then God told Abraham to lift up his eyes and look to the north, south, east and west; all that he could see God would give to him.
This is the thought that made me go hummmm. How many of us are already in our promised land? God has spoke his instructions for our life; yet, we are not fully obedient. Walking in partial obedience is being disobedient. We are trying to live a resurrected life but we are taking along our worldly friends and the world's ways. Consequently, we can't move forward and step into the promises that God has dropped into our hearts. God is tell us to come out from among them and lift up our eyes to the north, south, east and west and all we can see he will give to us.
It is time for us to re-position ourselves and step into the promise of God; the living waters where the blessing flow.
