Sacrifice is a muscle and Abram built up his brawn long before his big renaming.
Tag: obedience
God is assembling a good and perfect plan through the parts and pieces we don’t understand.
“So you cannot be my disciples without giving up everything you own.” (Luke 13:35 NIV) We read this scripture out of context and presume it’s about the rich young ruler. It’s not. This alarming statement is nestled in a portion of the gospels entitled ‘the…
Sabbath is about rest, but it’s also about sanctification.
God was honored by the Israelites obedience, even if it meant they looked foolish for a little while.
The Israelites wound up at the Red Sea on purpose. They hadn’t missed God. They weren’t stranded outside of His will.
sanctification requires a lifetime and surrender is a learned skill.
Perhaps Paul wasn’t proving his qualifications to his audience as much as he was reminding himself?
When we await Christ’s instruction, we are far more apt to follow through.