Genesis 13:17-18 : "Go and walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you." So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.
I have a suspicion that God longs to lead each of us to a new and beautiful land, if we would simply be willing to follow. But all too often our refusal to let go of the old, safe places and patterns and ways and habits and seasons keep us from being willing, or able, to fully embrace and enjoy all that he is trying to do in and through us. Fear or comparison or complacency or cowardice takes hold of us, and keeps us from entering into this new place or vocation or season. Thus, we end up sacrificing our future because of our past, and we lose out of all that God has in store. Could it be that he is trying to nudge us into a new way of seeing and of being? One that will make us realize that we can either lead safe, comfortable lives, or we can fully enter into all that is being offered us. May we all embrace the new land and the new season that God is offering us. O God, give us the grace and the courage to do so.
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