#119 John O' Groat ( 27 dec 06)

'..Therefore for Thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. Pull me out of the net....'
Psalm 31:3-4

Not too sure if the wet weather has caused my grey matter to turn soggy and my hands limpid, for that 'it' factor was missing, and for the last couple of days, I could not bring myself to finish penning this sharing, till now.

Thankfully, by the Grace of God, today, He brought me to this englightening note penned by a beloved and faithful servant of Christ(for with the outage from the Taiwan earthquake, this http://www.covenantvision.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123 was one of the few internet sites that I managed to gain access to).
In it, the writer shared his God given insight on the story of Abraham. Abraham, at age 75 literally left all, when he departed Ha'ram and obeyed the Lord. Yet, it was only past age 100 years old, that he finally realized the promise that God gave him about having a son.
Genesis 15:6 tells us the promise only became a reality when it was counted to Abraham for righteousness, when he believed.

Like Abraham, many of us who believe and desire to follow Jesus Christ, still struggle very much in our journey. For our walk and belief in God often rested on human hope to receive a human desire. Abraham only truly changed his focus from human hope to Godly hope, and his unbelief was dealt with, when at age 100, he knew that it was not humanly possible for him or his wife to bring about to fruition a child. But then, even in the intermingling 25 years, even though the promise was not realized, through the storms and joys of his journey, he has come to truly know God.

'.....fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able to perform.....'
Romans 4:21

'....therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness'
Romans 4:22

As a Christian, when I first embarked on my journey of faith(by the grace of God), after the initial indescribable joy and peace of experiencing His love, it was back to the realization that the journey of refinement, revelation, renewal and transformation has not ended, but rather just started.
Though much as we, blessed believers have tried to exhort others to go down the same path, our own personal journeys are also mired in its own struggles, as the innate sinfulness and finite understanding in us, the unwillingness to let go and let God, strived to reassert itself, even as God refines and transform us into His likeness.

Abraham is God's anointed. From him, will come the seeds of God's chosen people.
Yet, Abraham was no different from any of us. He was an imperfect human with all his deficiencies, warts and all.
But he stayed faithful, always looking unto God, allowing God to transform him, be it in the midst of storms and disappointments of life or in the blessings of God's grace.


God is the great I AM. He is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end.
Adam and Eve, by taking the fruit of knowledge, has chosen in all sinfulness to walk their own deluded way with the devil, without God.
By the birth, death and resurrection Jesus Christ, God has now allowed us to reclaim our birthright, to be with Him.
But till Jesus Christ returns, or till He takes us out of this sinful world to await His return, we will, believers or not, still have to go through the sin strewned world of Satan.
Yet, God will walk with us. He wil lead us. He will transform us.

Question is
- do we start right with Him, and stay right by always allowing Him to make us right, right through our journey with Him or

- do we start right with Him by looking unto Him at the beginning of the journey but end up looking everywhere except to the Lord our God or

- we start on the wrong foot, by not believing but are blessed to stumble somewhere along in our chosen wrong route and be so awakened to that reality of that deviation and bring ourselves to focus on God instead or

- do we after starting literally at John O' Groat( in the northern most part of Scotland) and finishing the journey at Land's End( at the other extreme end of England), all torn and tattered, body and soul and realizing too late that, without God, truly beyond Land's End, lies the deep and painful recesses of Hell.

Let God do his job. But most would rather God do a Job on them before they believe.

God Blesses

Eng Hieang