Walk

Gen 13:14-17
14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 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. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
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Abram receives the promise of the land that stretches out before him as far as the eye can see. But God is not satisfied just having Abram see the Promised Land but commands him to go and walk in the land. God wants Abram to fully experience His gift. He doesn’t just want to know about the land but to connect and live in this new place.

He wants the same for us. It is not enough for us to be reborn into a new life from above and to merely lie in the grace of God like a newborn in a crib. We are to get up and walk in this new life. In walking we experience the length and breadth of what we have been given. We draw nearer to God.

As we move, we grow.
As we grow, we come to know.
As we come to know, He has more to show.