After the sin of Adam and eve, God promised to send a saviour to liberate the whole mankind from their sin. To fulfill that promise, the first person who was chosen by God was Abraham. The God's calling, which was received by Abraham was the starting point for his special vocation. The Holy Bible reports the special call of Abraham as follows.
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The brith place of Abraham was Ur. But lived in Haran with his father and his relations. When he was in Haran he got a speacial call from God. According to that call, he had to go to Canaan. That land was also known as “Promised Land” You can identify Ur, Haran, Canaan, in the map given below.
The call of Abraham has two elements
1. Sacrifice
2. Challenge
Abraham had to leave his father's tribe (House), his own people, and at the same time his own nation. Even though he needed his relations to share his sorrows, joys, pain, and happiness he had to leave everything and started his joumey by keeping his full confidence in God. He also believed fully about the vocation that he received from God. Because of that faith Abraham was known as “Father of Faith”. Taking his exemplary life of faith, we too can learn to keep our trust always on God and act accordingly in our day to day life.
Abraham had to accept the promise of God for great descendants, when he was advanced in age and his wife was said to be barren. Abraham had to journey into an unknown far away land, which is Canaan, about 800 miles (1300 kilo meters) away from his own land Haran. They are the cahallenges that Abraham faced.
God's Promise to Abraham
When listening to the voice of God and live according to it, certai things have to be sacrificed in our lives, it is also we have to face challenges. But everything will not come to an end from sacrifices and challenges.
God's abundant blessings wiil be showered upon on those who obey the will of God. The graces which Abraham received in future was expressed through the God's promise the promise itself is two fold.
1. Great descendant through Abraham
2. Abraham's descendants possessing the Land for ever
When God called Abraham, he was at the age of 75 and his wife was 65. But God promised them to give a child to make a big generation. According to the promise that generation was Israelites: the land that they possessed was “Promised Land”.
The Examples we can take from the call of Abraham
As students, God calls you for different tasks, therefore you must be prepared to obey his call.
According to the call, give maximum service to the Lord.
Keep your trust fully in God, accept His Word, and live according to it.
In our life journey, we should be ready to accept different things that we have to sacrifice.
At the decisive moments in our life, we should change our life by accepting the will of God.
We should pray to God abundantly to get strength to face challenges successfully.
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