Leave, trust, obey!! Just do it

Wow I am so excited for this sermon series! It's incredible that God still uses Abraham and Sarah's story from thousands of years ago to teach us what it looks like to follow.

It's difficult for me to understand how hard it must have been for Abraham and Sarah to leave their fully established lives. They had no idea that the entire future of humanity would come to depend on their leaving, trusting, and obeying. As soon as they had developed a sense of security, God comes and says "Go to the land which I WILL show you." Not the land that they had already seen or already knew about, but the land which God WILL show them. Such trust!! Leaving the known for the unknown? Familiar for unfamiliar? Secure to insecure?? I've been thinking about what that looks like for me. If I am content with staying where I am, I won't have the opportunity to experience or become the blessing. As DJ says, to be a disciple of Jesus Christ in our time is to be a sojourner, foreigner, and a resident alien in one's homeland. It's in the following, not the staying, that we will be blessed to be a blessing. 

This is so scary to me! I'm in the middle of trying to figure out what I want to do in school, if I want to stay in my major or switch and pursue something completely different and I'm having the hardest time trusting God 100%. I'm terrified that I'm going to make the wrong decision and it feels impossible to lean on the Lord when I don't know where he is taking me. I have to recognize that this familiar culture that I'm surrounded with is often not in line with the vision that God has for me. My family, this society, my friends, etc. no longer have the last word in discipleship! Leave, trust, obey. He doesn't promise it will be easy or without sacrifice, but he promises he will be leading us.