You earned a name in the "faith hall of fame" (Hebrews 11), and I'm a bit confused about how all this works practically in life. Would you answer some questions for me?
When you went to Egypt to get food in a famine, you sorta took things into your own hands. You told Sarai to lie and say she was your sister...wanted to save your own hide, right? It doesn't seem like that was what God wanted, though, because Pharoah's whole household got diseased when he took Sarai as his wife. You took things into your own hands and failed. God blessed you with riches, but that's because He promised He would.
When you gave the best choice of land to Lot (yes, your little nephew who was not given the covenant promise that you were) did God tell you specifically to do that, or were you just acting maturely? Was it faith that told you not to be proactive in gaining that land?
When the King of Sodom offered you a bunch of money, you refused him because you made an oath to God not to take money from him so that it could only be said that the riches had come from God. Did God tell you to take that oath, or did you just know because you were abiding in Him?
When you listened to the voice of Sarai and had a child with Hagar, you were taking things into your own hands? How did that work out for you? Is that how God wanted to work to give you children?
So I guess what I'm wondering is, what do you think of the common Christian phrase:
"Work as if it's all up to you, pray as if it's all up to God"
?
?
When you went to Egypt to get food in a famine, you sorta took things into your own hands. You told Sarai to lie and say she was your sister...wanted to save your own hide, right? It doesn't seem like that was what God wanted, though, because Pharoah's whole household got diseased when he took Sarai as his wife. You took things into your own hands and failed. God blessed you with riches, but that's because He promised He would.
When you gave the best choice of land to Lot (yes, your little nephew who was not given the covenant promise that you were) did God tell you specifically to do that, or were you just acting maturely? Was it faith that told you not to be proactive in gaining that land?
When the King of Sodom offered you a bunch of money, you refused him because you made an oath to God not to take money from him so that it could only be said that the riches had come from God. Did God tell you to take that oath, or did you just know because you were abiding in Him?
When you listened to the voice of Sarai and had a child with Hagar, you were taking things into your own hands? How did that work out for you? Is that how God wanted to work to give you children?
So I guess what I'm wondering is, what do you think of the common Christian phrase:
"Work as if it's all up to you, pray as if it's all up to God"
?
?
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