We are not alone. God has a plan!
We are not simply walking aimlessly around in the wilderness. If we are trusting God, He is leading and guiding us. We cannot simply believe what our natural senses tell us. We must walk by Faith not by Sight.
2Corin_5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
I want us to look at scripture at someone who had chosen to walk by faith, and to believe what God says, regardless of their circumstances or situations. They chose to follow God and believe that He had a plan for them. We need to do the same.
Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Gen 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
At this point of time we find Abram, later Abraham, had journeyed with his father Terah and with his wife and nephew in to the area of Haran. Here in chapter 12 verse 1, we find that God had called Abram and told him to leave all that knew all his kindred all that was familiar, and to go to a place God would show him. He promised Abram blessings for obeying.
Abram starts out on the journey. He does not know where he is going. He is journeying only at the command and promise of God. From his prospective, it could have looked that he was all alone out in the wilderness. But God had a plan. Though Abraham did not know the destination nor what God had planned for the future. God knew all. God was leading the way. God had a plan and God could see Abraham even when Abraham could not see for himself.
God has a plan for us and He sees even when we cannot see the way clearly or see the destination before us. We can know that God sees us. God is leading and guiding us each step along the way. God is directing. God is guiding.
Most of know and can quote Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the thoughts [ machăshebeth – intention, plan, work, purpose] that I think [ châshab – think, regard, value, devise, imagine, …] toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected [ expectation, hope for] end [akh-ar-eeth’ – last, end, future, posterity, reward].
From this we can see that God has a plan. God has a purpose. Even when it seems or feels that we are wandering around in the wilderness of this life. God is right there. He has good thoughts toward us. He is planning for our future. His thoughts are never evil, but they are of peace. His thoughts are to give us a blessed future and reward. He is guiding us along the path that leads to our ultimate future forever with Him.
God Miraculously gave Him a son in his old age. Fulfilling the promise of his seed even though he and Sarah were too old in the natural to conceive and have a child.
As we read more in scripture, we see that God brought Jacob and his family down into Egypt where they sojourned for 400 years. There they became a great nation. God was faithful to His promise to Abraham. God used Moses to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt into the land God had promised to Abraham,
Today, are we getting the picture? We are not walking all alone in a wilderness. We are following Jesus steps. We are walking in faith even when we can’t see the way because we know that God sees us. We have complete assurance that God has a plan for us and He is working out that plan in our life. Job said, He sees my ways. He counts my steps. God is paying close attention to our life.
I want us to grasp the thought that even now, wherever we are in our life, God is there. God is already in our tomorrows. God is working out our very best future, if we are willing to stop looking at the wilderness and look to Him and follow wherever He is leading.