It’s not that he was bored, impatient or dissatisfied and wanting to do something else. It is that he knew there was more. It had started with a vision and then a dream (Genesis 15). He encountered God and experienced something others hadn’t. He had a restless soul that had seen beyond the reality of the world around him. He did what we are called to do. To trust beyond the pain. When the reality doesn’t change still hold to the promise.
“By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11v 9-10)
Abraham lived in tents, he didn’t settle down.
We can become content with what we have and how far we have come.
The call of the Spirit is to move.
Abraham lived 2,000 years before Christ and we live 2,000 years after Christ. Yet Abraham saw past us to see the same thing that John saw in Revelation 21 – a city coming down from heaven to earth – a God ordained world.
He was content to live in tents, a sign that he was looking for God’s fulfilment. He was believing for it to happen in his lifetime.
Faith seizes on a revealed event in the future and lives in anticipation of it.
There is always more of God. The Holy Spirit pioneers with us to receive more of God on our way towards the heavenly home.
Only in heaven will we be able to say we’ve arrived. Until then keep pioneering and we keep trusting.
Missions Paul 