God Never Gave Abraham the Whole Map

We like things settled. Give us the plan and the outcome, and we’ll sleep fine. Plenty of us call that wisdom, but a good bit of it is fear of being held to something we can’t control.

Abraham never had it that way. The Lord told him to go, and Hebrews says “he went out, not knowing whither he went” (Hebrews 11:8). He had a word from God and no map, and he packed anyway.

Most of our lives are lived in that same spot. We don’t know how the job turns out or how the children turn out. James tells the man making his big plans that he ought to say, “If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (James 4:15). That’s a man being honest about who holds tomorrow.

So when you don’t have every answer, say so, and keep walking with the One who does.

Pastor Fortunato
Founding Pastor & Preacher of the Word.
Pilgrim Baptist Church — Cookeville, Tennessee

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