Eyes On The Road

Daily Scripture Readings

Monday: Genesis 15:1-6

Tuesday: Genesis 17:1-14

Wednesday: Genesis 18:1-15

Thursday: Genesis 21:1-7

Friday: Genesis 25:19-28

Saturday: Luke 14:12-14

Opening Prayer

Gracious God, help us to stay focused on Your call on Your church.   Let us be obedient as Abram was obedient. 

In Jesus’ name, AMEN

READING:

Have you ever had a call in the middle of the night, when your teenager is out? When the phone rings, you look at it for a few seconds before you pick it up, don’t you? It seems that your heart stops beating in those suspended seconds.

When God calls, it is also alarming. I have a good friend who heard that call. In his repentance and embracing of the Scriptures and salvation by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, he knew that the call could cost him his family. It did. He was separated from his family of origin since the day he left to follow the call of God. After his call to be Christ’s disciple, he experienced a second call: a call to preach. That call seemed to blow up whatever bridge remained to his old home and family and friends. But God supplied a new family, a new home, a promised land of hope and even the opportunity to trust God for his family back home.

When God calls, things happen. There is a famous place in the Word of God about calls. It is in Genesis 12:1-2 where the Lord calls Abraham to leave all and follow Him to a place that He would show him. This divine interruption, like the telephone call in the night, would change his life—and ours—forever. In Abraham’s call, in this passage, we may know the pathway ahead in God’s call on our lives, whether it is a call to come to Him as His child, or to come into a deeper relationship with Him as His disciple, or to, indeed, leave all and come and follow Him to a new place of service.

Michael Milton