Something old, something new

When I read through the Old Testaments, one of the themes which I pick up is the life lessons and actual relevant examples for a believer. Many seem to believe that the Bible, specifically the Old Testament is outdated and irrelevant. If that is your view on the subject, it could be that you are reading it either studying the word with the incorrect perspective or are not completely allowing the Holy Spirit to be who is revealing the scripture to you; and you thus fail to see how can the lives of those who have passed over thousands of years ago can have any substance to a modern day world.

In the Book of Genesis 12, we see God ask a man to leave the country of his birth and follow God to a place he has never been to and all that he has to hold onto is a promise that one day God would bless him, make him a great nation and in turn make him a blessing. Now that in itself has significance to any modern day believer, as we too are at times confronted with God making us a promise and calling us into new territories; be they literal shifts of territory, emotional or even spiritual. At some point or the other God will require of us to move from a place of comfort and security to follow Him and His will for our lives in order to be able to possess that blessing He wants to bring forth into our lives, and to the lives of others through our submission to Him. In essence the call of Abram alone is relevance at its core. The question is however: “Do we want to remain where we are in our father’s land and country of our birth where we have the security and structure?” “Or do will we follow God’s call to places unknown and hold onto His promise in order to one day find that He would have not just simply changed our lives and blessed us, but changed our very name from Abram to become Abraham?

The next segments as God leads will be focused on the relevance of something old in an age of something new. Where you can question your life and see where God can, is trying and will take your life if we will only submit to His call and will.