trust.

I haven't had much to talk about lately.  I am, however, doing a Beth Moore study called "The Patriarchs, Encountering the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."  Sometimes I have a love for the Old Testament that I cannot explain.  Perhaps it comes from the fact that I feel so challenged by it.  Anyway, I'll probably be posting a lot of the awesome things I read and today will be one.

Upon reading the story of Abram and Sarai's trip to Egypt (you know, the one where Abram has Sarai lie and say that she is his sister so that he will not be killed for her beauty.... God sends a plague on Pharaoh's house.... Pharaoh confronts Abram because he knows the plagues have been sent because he took another man's wife for his own so he sends them both away....) Beth asks the reader what Abram could have done differently.  She then offers a quote from F. B. Meyer, asks the reader to absorb it then apply it.

"How much better would it have been for Abraham to have thrown the responsibility back on God, and to have said, 'Thou hast brought me here; and Thou must now bear the whole weight of providing for me and mine: here I will stay till I clearly know what Thou wilt have me to do.'  If any should read these lines who have come into positions of extreme difficulty, through following the simple path of obedience, let them now look at God through difficulties, as we see the sun shorn of splendour through a fog; but let them look at difficulties through God.  Let them put God between themselves and the disasters which threaten them.  Let them cast the whole responsiblity up on Him.  Has He not thus brought you into difficulties, that He may have an opportunity of strengthening your faith, by giving some unexampled proof of His power?  Wait only on the Lord, trust also in Him... He will provide."