There is a great contrast between Abraham and the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham is called God's friend. This is an amazing thing, and Jesus said that we too are His friends (John 15:15). No one making up a religious book would write these things, we should always read carefully what God says for it is truly amazing. God created us to have fellowship with Him, not to be distant. At the same time we need to remember that friends is only one of the descriptions of our relationship with God. He is our Father, He is also our Lord. We need to seek to live in the truth of all aspects of our relationship with Him. If we just see Him as a friend alone, then we will have a too familiar and casual relationship, if we see Him just as our Lord and ourselves as servants we will miss out the closeness and care of the realtionship God wants with us.
God saw Abraham as becoming a great and powerful nation. Note how God was looking far into the future. Indeed He was looking to the church, for it is believers in Christ who are the true descendants of Abraham. Moreover, God sees us having an important role upon the earth. It has always been God's plan to work with and through men. In the beginning He told Adam to fill the earth and subdue it, and He gave Adam the job of naming all the creatures. It is still God's plan to rule with and through us, and He achieves this through Christ. Now when we talk about ruling we may well feel a hesitancy or a reaction of some sort, because we associate it with the sort of corrupt or dictatorial rulerships that we see around us in the world. Instead we need to look at Christ, for He is the example of what Godly rulership and authority is all about.
All this will happen because God has chosen Abraham, and because He will see that these things are fulfilled. We are to seek to direct our families and those that we influence to keep the way of the Lord.
God saw Abraham as becoming a great and powerful nation. Note how God was looking far into the future. Indeed He was looking to the church, for it is believers in Christ who are the true descendants of Abraham. Moreover, God sees us having an important role upon the earth. It has always been God's plan to work with and through men. In the beginning He told Adam to fill the earth and subdue it, and He gave Adam the job of naming all the creatures. It is still God's plan to rule with and through us, and He achieves this through Christ. Now when we talk about ruling we may well feel a hesitancy or a reaction of some sort, because we associate it with the sort of corrupt or dictatorial rulerships that we see around us in the world. Instead we need to look at Christ, for He is the example of what Godly rulership and authority is all about.
All this will happen because God has chosen Abraham, and because He will see that these things are fulfilled. We are to seek to direct our families and those that we influence to keep the way of the Lord.
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