I wonder if Abram liked living in Ur? Was he happy there and did he have a life in that land he enjoyed? Surely he was established in the community. He probably had friends and others that he spent time with and enjoyed eating and laughing on many a starry evening. Did he think that God was being unreasonable when He asked ol' Abe to pack up his wife and extended family and start on a journey to an unknown land among unknown people? The Bible doesn't tell us how he felt, just that he got up and went. Likewise we are not told how Abraham felt when God told him to take Isaac the child of promise and sacrifice him to Yahweh. And what about Moses minding his sheep in the backside of the desert for forty years, then God interrupts his life at the age of eighty to begin a new phase of life?
In the past few months the Lord has interrupted our life and informed us that we have to leave our place of comfort and stability and venture to a new place to do a new work. After much debate with the Sovereign of the universe (Hint: It didn't work any better for me than it did for Moses), we are readying for a move to the DFW area (Grand Prairie) to begin a Bible Study in the home of our daughter and son-in-law. We don't know what we are doing only that we are following where God is leading. So at the age of fifty-three I am about to learn a new lesson in faith. I don't know how everything is going to work out, only that if we are in God's will then it is the best place to be.
