We need to listen to God. He is the only one who truly understands, He is the only one who has the answers.
Abraham and Sarah were the start of God's rescue mission for mankind. In the New Testament Paul repeatedly looks back to Abraham and Sarah as establishing the pattern of God's working.
Israel knew that they descended from Abraham and Sarah, they referred to themselves as Abraham's children. So God calls on them to look back to Abraham and Sarah. God made the nation out of nothing. Abraham and Sarah could not have children, yet God made a nation out of them. Our God is the God of the impossible. So He would utterly transform Israel's situation.
So they needed to listen to God. Instruction would go out from God, and it would become a light to the nations. God was looking beyond the borders of Israel. Israel was far too inward looking, we too can often suffer from the same failing.
All the world is temporary and will one day disappear, but God's salvation and righteousness will last forever.
We can see that instruction from God has gone out to much of the world. In the West God's righteousness is the foundation for much of our laws and institutions. Sadly we are quickly abandoning many of these foundations and will suffer the consequences.
No comments:
Post a Comment