Abraham, Walk before Me

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Genesis 17:1 

A walk before God? How?

• to think, and speak, and act in every thing as those that are always under his eye.
• It is to have a constant regard to his word as our rule.
• It is to have a constant regard to his glory as our end, in all our actions.
• We must remember that this upright walking with God is the condition of our interest in his all- sufficiency.. Benson

I believe we must cast all of our cares on Him! How else could we walk before Him? His eye, His Word. His glory; we lean on His all-sufficiency.

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ” Psalm 23

I shall not lack, fail, be without, decrease, be lacking, or have a need.

Does it mean that we always know where we are going? Well…

Hebrews11:8 teaches us, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”

It means he went “without knowing where he was going.” Next verses tell us, “By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” 

“He expected at length to be led on to; a city which hath foundations.” Tents have no foundations. Benson goes on to say:

“It is not suitable to God’s dealing with Abraham, and to the nature and effects of the holy patriarch’s faith, that he should have nothing to encourage him in his pilgrimage but a hope that, after many generations, his posterity should have a city to dwell in, in the land of Canaan, wherein the condition of most of them was not better than his in tents: To suppose that this was only an earthly city, not to be possessed by his posterity until eight hundred years afterward, and that but for a limited time, is utterly to overthrow his faith, the nature of the covenant of God with him, and his being an example to gospel believers, as he is here proposed to be. This city, therefore, which Abraham looked for, is that heavenly city, that everlasting mansion, which God hath prepared for all true believers with himself after this life; it being the place of their everlasting abode, rest, and refreshment, and that with the expectation of which Abraham and the following patriarchs comforted and supported themselves amidst all the toil and labour of their pilgrimage. Whose builder and maker is God — Of which God is the sole contriver, former, and finisher.”

Charles Spurgeon, shares with us , “

O Christian , antedate heaven for a few years.  “assign to it a date prior to that of actual occurrence.”” Within a very little time thou shalt be rid of all thy trials and thy troubles. Thine eyes now suffused with tears shall weep no longer.. Thou shalt gaze in ineffable rapture upon the splendor of Him who sits upon the throne. Nay, more, upon His throne shalt thou sit. The triumph of His glory shall be shared by thee; His crown, His joy, His Paradise, these shalt be thine, and thou shalt be co-heir with Him who is the heir of all things.’

Romans 8:15-17 —  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;

Heirs of God, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. “” Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. “

In closing, How can we ” Set our affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1? From AT Robertson:

“Paul does not mean that we should never think the things upon the earth, but that these should not be our aim, our goal, our master. The Christian has to keep his feet upon the earth, but his head in the heavens. He must be heavenly-minded here on earth and so help to make earth like heaven.”

Beloved, Moses in Exodus 33 sought God:

“Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.  And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. “Exodus 33:13-14 His presence is heaven on earth. love ya