Your Future is Secure in God

The future is a mystery and we respond to it differently depending on our present circumstances. We interpret the future based on the past and the present.
Depending on what is happening in the present we are either ‘warriors’ or ‘worry-ers’ but we are all set and moving into it.
Nothing can stop the dawning of a new day whether you are optimistic or pessimistic, bold or afraid, the sun will still rise and set.
Abram found himself caught up in the quagmire of what the future had for him. He looked at the past and then the present and was almost ready to surrender to the situation of barrenness.
Today insurance is a big business. It thrives on the premise that it can make the future predictable. Political and other key leaders rise to power by PROMISING a better tomorrow. They know that the message of hope will sell to any man because we all are susceptible to fear of what tomorrow may bring. Jesus knew this so well so he advised “do not worry about to morrow, what you shall eat, drink or wear the lord know that you need those things. E.t.c
There’s more to the opportunities that God gives us, something greater then we dared imagine. His blessing transcends the immediate and connects us to the ultimate. He looks at your future to determine your today’s blessing. He has everything planned beginning with you to your future generations and your response to his guidance makes it possible for that plan to unfold.
Have you ever wondered what might become of you some years to come or even your family when you are long gone from this world?
Abraham accounts his fear to God. He tells God;

• See I continue to be childless
• My heir will be my servant, this Eliezer of Damascus.
• Look, you have given me no offspring. You have delayed in fulfilling your promise.
• How shall know that I will possess this land

For these and other reasons that he raises when God speaks to him later in the chapter Abraham feels threatened and seeks Gods intervention.
(An insurance company will give you a certificate and a policy no. God made a covenant with Abram. This covered all his descendants)
I hope none of us is worried about our eternity. Our eternity is secure we worry more about our lifetime on this earth or for our children when we are gone.
The following steps provide a good format of responding to such threats in our own personal lives.

1.      Listen

We listen to hear what the other person is saying. To listen to God is to try to discern what He is saying about the situation at hand. In Abrahams situation God said;

• Fear not Abram, I am your shield and your reward great ( your exceeding great reward)
• This shall not be your heir but your very own son will be
• Look at the stars of heaven, so shall your descendants be.
• I called you from Ur of the Chaldeans for a purpose. To give you this land to inherit

 God seems to say to Abram, Let the remembrance of what I have done for thee confirm thy confidence, since every former mercy is a pledge of a future. God giveth after he hath given, as the spring runneth after it hath run. And as the eye is not weary of seeing, nor the ear of hearing, no more is God of doing good to his people. "Draw out thy lovingkindness," saith David, {Ps 36:10, marg.} as a continued series or chain, where one link draws on another to the utmost length.

2.      Believe

To believe in God is to take as true what you hear from Him.
“And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.” (Ge 15:6 NKJV)
Its good to hear but we should take our hearing a notch higher by choosing to believe in what God says. To believe is to trust in what God is saying before you see the manifestation of what is promised. Because he chose to believe, he then knew that his future will be secure, that God will steer his course and bring him to the desired destiny.
Jesus told His disciples, “"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” (Joh 14:1 NKJV)
Believing puts in a right standing which for Abraham is qualified as righteousness. And as the Bible says, righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.
“You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what he said.”” (Lu 1:45 NLT)
“So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper."” (2Ch 20:20 NKJV)
“Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."” (Mr 9:23 NKJV)
Abram had nothing to show expect for the covenant that indeed he will be a great nation.

3.      Act

When you act on what God says you release His might hand to swing into action on your behalf. Obedience really moves God.
Abram went out and prepared the sacrifice God had asked him to prepare. He was determined not to loose on His blessing.
He chased away the birds that sought to destroy his offering.
In our process to follow Gods, instructions there are issues that may seek to sabotage that purpose.

• The birds of the air as in the case of Abram
• The great darkness and terror that came upon Abram
• Time- it was to take 400 yrs for the manifestation in full form of what God had said

 Delay is not denial. Safety is not absence of danger, trials or difficulties but the presence of God.
Your future is secure in God. Don’t you worry about it, plan for it and I can assure you, its better than you think.