DAY 8: GOD CHOSE ABRAHAM

 THE RHEMA WORD FOR TODAY

(A DAILY DEVOTIONAL WITH PREACHER SAM)

 

TOPIC: GOD CHOSE ABRAHAM

DATE: 8 SEPTEMBER, 2020

BIBLE READING: GENESIS 12:1-9

MEDITATION/MEMORY VERSE: NEHEMIAH 9:7, 8A (CEV)

You are the Lord our God, the one who chose Abram- you brought him from Ur in Babylonia and named him Abraham. Because he was faithful…

 

In today’s Bible reading, we were not told specifically why God chose Abraham, unlike Noah- he was a righteous man and so he found grace with God (Gen. 6:8, 9). But when we compare scripture with scripture with the help of the author; the Holy Spirit, we can demystify the question.

First, who was Abraham? Abraham was a man from Ur in Babylonia; a nation where they worship false gods. So that explains the fact that he never grew up knowing the only true God. He must have felt unrest and unsatisfied serving idols made by humans. He must have knew that his dead gods cannot bring rest and satisfaction, he also must have knew that there must be someone who had created all things; and so that must have led him for the quest in knowing this only true God (Ref. Acts 14:16, 17; 17:23-31; Rom. 1:18-25). And so when he found the only true God (Acts 17:27), he must have vowed never to leave or disobey him, that was why all his lifetime was dependent on him by faith (Heb. 11:8-10). So why did God choose him? Our verse for meditation gave us a clue. He was faithful.

Now, one other thing we must understand is the uniqueness of his assignment; he is to be the pioneer of faith and the father to many nations of which the Saviour of the whole world would emerge from. Such an assignment is needed to be given to one who can lead his household to keep the way of the Lord. And the Omniscient God had seen that in Abraham, that was why he chose him for that purpose.

 

Genesis 18:19 NIV

For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.

 

The uniqueness of his assignment involves separation from the Babylonia and even his family. That was what Apostle Peter wrote to the church chosen by God in 1 Peter 1:2;

God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and His Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.

(NLT)

 

To be holy means to be separated. Everyone called and chosen by God, needs to be separated from the cultures of this world (Rom. 12:1, 2).

But from our Bible reading, did Abraham leave all? No! He took his nephew, Lot and all the people he had taken into his household at Haram (Gen. 12:5), and that’s why we can conjecture that that would have been the delay of Sarah having a child at an early age.

Everyone chosen by God has unique assignment and so we all need total separation from the world, in order to achieve our purpose effectively.

 

DECLARATION: MY ASSIGNMENT IS UNIQUE! AND SO I SEPARATE MYSELF FROM THE SYSTEM OF THIS WORLD.

 

FURTHER STUDY: ROMANS 4