Genesis Review Continued

The next thing that we will look at in Genesis is God's promise to Abraham, because this promise applies to all of us. God was to make a great nation of Abraham's descendants, and though physically this applied to  the nation of Israel, spiritually it applies to everyone who follows Christ, Who was the descendant of Abraham through Whom the promise was ultimately fulfilled.  We do not have to be concerned with who our biological family is to be a aprt of God's kingdom.  We simply have to accept Christ as our Savior and Lord.  We also learned that God may call us away from our home in order to follow His purpose, just as Abram, later called Abraham, was called away from his home.  I believe that we should also realize that we should not attempt to change what God calls us to do.  I believe in Abram's case, lot should have been left behind, and because he wasn't, he caused Abram a lot of problems.  We cannot partially do God's will and hope for success.  We also learned that we must wait on God's promise.  Abram and Sarai first doubted God's promise and then attempted to force it to come to pass by their own plans.  we today must simply rely on God's promises.  We cannot cause them to come to pass by our own plans.  For example, we know that Christ will one day return to earth, but it will happen when God says the time is right, and we can never change the time that it will occur.  We, like Paul, should simply remain faithful to God, whether we live or die.  For those who are followers of Christ, the second coming of Christ will be a day of victory, but for all others it will be a day of everlasting defeat, and if we are a follower of Christ, we should never be in a hurry for this to happen.  Sometimes we seem to have the attitude that we look forward to that day because sinners will get what they deserve, forgetting that we are all sinners simply saved by the grace of God.