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When our plans seem better
When Our Plans Seem Better
Genesis 12:1
“Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.”
Abraham is remembered as a man of great faith.
But his journey tells a deeper story.
When God first called him, the instruction was clear.
Leave everything behind.
But Abraham brought Lot.
It may have seemed like a small thing,
a reasonable adjustment,
a harmless addition to what God had said.
But partial obedience often carries hidden consequences.
Later, fear led him to compromise truth.
Waiting led him to create his own solution.
More than once, Abraham chose what made sense
over what God had spoken.
And each time, it brought complication.
But God never walked away.
He kept speaking.
Kept leading.
Kept shaping.
Until one day,
when everything was on the line,
Abraham no longer tried to adjust the plan.
He trusted it.
The man who once created alternatives
had become a man who surrendered fully.
Faith like that doesn’t appear overnight.
It is formed
in the tension between promise and delay,
in the moments where we get it wrong,
and in the mercy of a God who keeps leading us back.
God’s plan does not need improving.
It needs trusting
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