SCRIPTURE: Genesis 13
OBSERVATION/APPLICATION:
(Read my reflection from 2008)
The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you. [Genesis 13:14-17]
One man standing in a foreign land where he is a stranger.
Yet this one man is assured that he will become a leader of a great nation, a people who cannot be numbered because they are so many.
One man, yet backed with the promise and power and authority of God.
Wherever he walks through the land, he is assured that it will be his!

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” [Matthew 28:18-20]
One man standing in a foreign land where He is a stranger.
Yet this one man is assured that he will become a leader of a great nation, a people who cannot be numbered because they are so many.
One man, yet backed with the promise and power and authority of God.
Wherever he walks through the land, he is assured that it will be his!

Jesus sends out His followers with the same promise and power as Abram.
And wherever they walk, they are claiming the land for Him – Who holds all authority in heaven and on earth.
They are to go, even though their numbers are small, even though its hard to believe.
They are to go in the promise and power of the true King, knowing that He will establish them and make them into a great mass of people.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. [Revelation 7:9]

No doubt Abram must have sometimes doubted, after all the land was still under the control of others?
No doubt the disciples must have sometimes doubted, after all the land was still under the control of others?
Yet in both cases God did multiply them, and we are a part of that multiplication.
And His calling stands still for today, to walk the length and breadth of the planet, for He is giving it to us, for He is with us.
To the very ends of the earth, to the very end of the age.
One man, one promise, and a great multitude that no one can count!

PRAYER:
Lord, I need this assurance as we continue to do our work in the area where You have sent us. As we walk through this community, help us to remember this promise!