Called to Go

Reflection

God's rescue plan for a broken world begins with one aging, childless man being told to leave everything familiar. "Go," God says to Abram — leave your country, your people, your father's household — to a land I will show you. Notice that last phrase. God does not hand over a map. He asks Abram to start walking and trust that the destination will become clear on the way. Faith almost always begins with a "go" before it receives the full picture. Abram is given a promise — a great nation, a blessing, a name — but no itinerary. He has to move toward God's word before he can see where it leads. Tucked into the call is its purpose: Abram is blessed in order to be a blessing, until all the families of the earth are blessed through him. This is not a private arrangement between God and one man. It is the first move in a plan that reaches all the way to Jesus, Abraham's descendant, through whom the whole world is finally blessed. Your calling may feel similarly vague — a nudge toward something unclear, a conviction without a roadmap. God rarely shows us the whole road at once. He shows us the next step, and he asks us to take it, trusting that we, too, are blessed to be a blessing.