What is God asking of you?

Read James 2:14-26, Genesis 22, and Joshua 2…Go ahead…read them.   

 

Abraham was a man God wanted to use, but what Abraham wanted more than God, more than his wife, and more than anything else, was a son.  So Abraham sleeps with his maid servant to conceive a child.  Yet despite his disobedience, God still shows his grace to him by promising Abraham a son by his wife…not his servant.  Through it all, Abraham sees the beauty of God, and begins to desire God more than anything else, even the son he so desperately wanted.  His love for God is proven in the Genesis 22 account.  Abraham, despite all his shortcomings and failures chose the pleasures of God over the pleasures of this world.  Abraham chose obedience!

 

Rehab was a prostitute.  Someone our Christian culture would look down upon.  But God did not look down on her, rather chose to reveal himself to her and use her.  Rehab chose obedience to God over the love of the world and herself.  She risked her life to house 2 Israelite spies, yet did it knowing that it was exactly what God was calling her to do.  Rehab chose obedience!   

 

God changed the lives of this adulterer (Abraham) and prostitute (Rehab) so much that they are mentioned twice in the New Testament as an example of true faith (James 2 and Hebrews 11).  So the question for you today is: where is God calling you to be obedient?  Don’t think God won’t use you in great ways because of what you have or haven’t done…he used Abraham and Rehab!  In James 2:14-26 we are told that true faith actually does something…it proves itself by how we live and act.  So if you really believe what you say you believe, then God must be calling you to be obedient in certain areas.  So what are they?