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    by Jeannie Pallett

Come to Change
Date Posted: July 17, 2011

Come to Change

When God calls us to come, He is giving out an invitation and inviting us to change. What things does change embrace? Our clothes – He wants to give us garments of righteousness and praise – we will then look different.

Our countenance – we are to shine and be radiant with the love and glory of God.

Our thought life – we are to think and meditate on those things that are pure, lovely, of good report anything worthy of praise.

Our actions – we need to get used to walking the Highway of Holiness and learning to see and avoid the snares of the fowler. God is inviting those who are hungry and thirsty, those willing to admit their poverty, their wretchedness, the ones willing to surrender their lives and receive the blessings of their redemption.

We have inner longings that will only be filled as we allow ourselves to be fed by the hand of the Father. From His hand, He will give us what will precisely and singularly meet our need. “Singular” is no longer a very popular word – it means “strange, odd, unusual and out of place”. Our inner hunger is singular in that there is no other feeling quite like it; it pops up at the oddest of times and causes us to feel out of place and out of step. God is singular in His answer when He tells us to “Come to the waters, and he who has no money, come buy and eat.”

What are we buying with? We have purchase power in the laying down of our lives and in the admission of our poverty and our inability to see. We lay our lives down as payment – they have already been purchased by the precious Blood of Jesus- they belong to the One who paid the highest price He could pay for our redemption. In times of uncertainty and change that understanding gives us an insight into the value placed on each one of us. To God’s heart, we are singular. We stand out, we are out of place in the shadows of the world, we are His peculiar people, unusual because we know our God and do great things with Him. He places the solitary in families. Abraham was singled out as a “solitary”.

He was the first one in his family to step out in faith, the first one in his family to trust and obey God. Abraham’s life of dependence upon God is full of daily, practical illustrations for us today. He is no different from us in the normal doubts and failures he experienced and yet he is a challenging example for us. He had to step out and away from the place of comfort and security and just wide openly trust God. God in turn rewarded his trust and kept His promise in giving him a place to live as well as daily temporal blessings.

Had Abraham ever given any thought to whether or not he liked new beginnings and having a fresh start? Maybe he was not sure because he did not fully obey God. He took his father Terah with him as well as his nephew. When they got to Haran, the meaning of his father’s name bore fruit. It means “delay”. For it was in Haran that Terah decided he wanted to stay. This was a place that was noted for its idolatry and moon worship. Maybe for Terah he felt that this was enough separation from idolatry and that this was as far as he wished to go with God.

However, God had called Abraham to leave his country and his people and here after a false start at full obedience, God’s call came again to Abraham. Abraham obeyed because he believed God and he believed His promises all through the years when he saw them not. Like Abraham, we too need to renounce some things in our lives in order to receive the fullness of the blessing of God.

Do we count the cost and consider it too high? Abraham chose faith; he chose to take hold of the power provided by God in order to experience its strength. His experience of the strength of God poured into his life worked in cooperation with God’s call. “Leaving the country and his people” was a physical act which he could see. “Go to” would be a completely different story as only God knew the steps he would have to take to get there and all of his thoughts and energies needed to be concentrated toward entering into this new land.

There is a wonderful verse in Proverbs 4:18 that says “the path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day”- we must choose to move and live and find our very being in Christ. When we choose to fully respond to Him and begin to walk in step with Him, cooperate with Him, coordinate our lives according to His word then we shall begin a lifetime of experiencing the exceeding great reward the Father is to us. Like Abraham, God wants us out of the land of our old lives; He wants us to separate ourselves from habits of life, sin and selfish ambitions that would hinder us and our families from obedience to God.

His desire for us is that we are fully surrendered to love.

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