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Part 1 - Genesis 18:1-15 - THE POWER OF ONE SMALL STEP by Ross
Cochrane
Genesis 18:1-18:15
Part 1 - Genesis 18:1-15 - THE POWER OF ONE SMALL STEP
As a boy he was active in the Boy Scouts, and had earned the
rank of Eagle Scout. He was only the
second person in his family to attend college. In 1950, a week
after his 20th birthday, he became a
Naval Aviator and then later an ASTRONAUT.
Watching television as the dramatic pictures were broadcast to
the world, I was aware that
something momentous had happened and I have never forgotten the
images of that man. I was 14
years old.
NEIL ARMSTRONG and his crew touched down at 20:17:39 UTC on July
20, 1969. On Television that
day my family and I saw Armstrong walk down the ladder and STEP
OUT onto the surface of the
moon. We all remembered those famous words, "THAT'S ONE SMALL
STEP FOR (A) MAN, ONE GIANT
LEAP FOR MANKIND."
That Christmas I had taken a momentous step myself as I gave my
life to Christ. It was not a lunar
landing, and it only seemed like ONE SMALL STEP, but it CHANGED
MY LIFE from that moment on.
It is just like God to do this. He knows I am only able to
receive His plan for my life in "ONE-SMALL-
STEP-FOR-A-MAN" pieces. One small step in the direction He says
to go is lifechanging.
Genesis 18:1 (NLT) says, "The Lord appeared again to Abraham
...Abraham was sitting at the
entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day."
Was Abraham praying as he sat at the entrance to his tent that
day? It doesn't say but I'd like to
think that he was. Wouldn't you be praying if you were 100 years
old and Sarah, your wife, is 90
and God had given you AN IMPOSSIBLE PLAN?
In Genesis 12 God gives Him the BIG PICTURE PLAN and points him
to the stars. He was to STEP
OUT IN FAITH, he was blessed to be a blessing. Later in Genesis
15:4 the Lord gets very specific.
The impossibility of what God said that day was MINDBLOWING
enough for Abraham to believe. Now
the Lord appears to him again and confirms this plan with Sarah,
who will also need to be an active
participant and CO-PILOT in all this.
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It's not all that unusual that an old man would sit at the
entrance to his home, but the point is that
it is often in THE STILL MOMENTS that I am more aware that God
is there to speak to me about my
hopes and dreams. He wants me to serve Him and develop my
relationship with Him and there will
be times when He will accomplish in my life what I consider to
be IMPOSSIBLE.
How did God appear to Abraham? What strikes me is that He didn't
appear a BLAZE OF HIS GLORY
that knocked Abraham to the ground, like He did with Paul? (Acts
9:3-5). God can turn up in your
life in so many different ways -, A BURNING BUSH to Moses
(Exodus 3:2), a PILLAR OF CLOUD by
day and PILLAR OF FIRE by night to the Israelites (Exodus
13:21), A GENTLE WHISPER like He didwith Elijah (1 Kings 19:11-13).
In whatever way He chooses to appear, the most gracious of all
seems to be when He turns up as A HUMAN BEING, walking in the
garden like He did with Adam
(Genesis 3:8) and as a baby in Bethlehem as He did with Joseph
and Mary (Matthew 1:21, Galatians
4:4). What I love about God is that HE TURNS UP in ways that
will have a profound impact upon my
life and yet it is so personal. Abraham had already been CHANGED
FOREVER from the moment God
spoke with him and he took ONE SMALL STEP for a man, but ONE
GIANT LEAP for mankind.
God bless you Church as the Lord continues to make Himself known
to you in ways that profoundly
change your life, as He points you to the stars and invites you
to take one small step.
Pastor Ross
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