Monday, May 27, 2013

Wandering from Home -- You Find Him

Abraham shares how God caused him to leave his own father:

"And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother." (Genesis 20: 13)

Here, the verb "wander" is:
תָּעָה taah
God caused Abraham to wander from his father here on earth, in the same manner that God outlined that every man would leave father and mother and become one flesh with his wife.

The Hebrew word for "wander" is composed of the three letters:

תָּ tav -- Cross
עָ ayin -- Eye
ה heh -- Grace

From the Cross, you then see God's grace, that will cause you to be a wanderer on this Earth, yet a receiver of Great Promises.

We are called not to depend on flesh (Jeremiah 17: 6), but rather to look to our new Father:

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" (Matthew 6: 26)

In fact, when we receive Christ our rest (Matthew 11: 28), we no longer wander or wonder:

"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

"For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." (Hebrews 4: 9-10)

We rest because in Christ the Work or reconciling us back to God has been finished:

"When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. " (John 19: 30)

and

"To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." (2 Corinthians 5: 19)

So, we can stop wandering, but rather we receive the exhortation to rest in Him:

"Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Hebrews 4: 11)

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