We hope you enjoy this re-post from August 25, 2014. Be blessed! The Today’s Quote From God Team

And [so] the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed in (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on) God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness (as conformity to God’s will in thought and deed), and he was called God’s friend. – James 2:23, Amplified Bible (AMP)

Jack is a great Sunday School teacher. During one of his recent lessons to our class, he offered the following illustration to prove that, sometimes, submission means obeying without understanding:

Larry loved his grandfather. Just a little boy, Larry shadowed Grandpa every chance he got. One day Grandpa said to Larry, “Do you want to go with me?”

Larry replied, “Where are we going?”

Grandpa gave Larry a look and then took off on his errand, leaving Larry behind. 

Larry was terribly upset. When Grandpa returned, he ran up to his elder and asked with teary eyes, “Why did you leave me?”

Grandpa calmly replied to his dear, little grandchild, “If you really wanted to go with me, it wouldn’t have mattered where we were going.”

God counted Abraham as His friend, and He did so because Abraham wanted to be with Him, no matter where “being with Him” led. In Genesis 12, God told Abraham to pick and leave his home, his family, and his business without having the faintest idea where he was going. Already age 75 and well-established where he was, leaving home on a wing and a prayer was no small task. Yet, Abraham submitted to God’s direction, and he did so because He wanted to be with God, even without understanding where he was going.

There may come a time in your life – maybe several times – when God will call on you to go, and you won’t have the faintest idea where you are going or how you will get there. But, if you really want to be in God’s company, it won’t really matter where you are going. It will only matter that He is leading you there. By the way, don’t worry; you’ll find out when you get to your destination that the place God is taking you is better than any place you could have taken yourself.