[Discoveries] 03-08-08 Steering the ship -- Genesis 17:18

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*"If only Ishmael might live under Your blessing!" -- Genesis 17:18*/

Question: How do you steer an ocean liner?

Answer: Give it time and space to turn. I've read that when you turn the 
wheel on the largest ships they keep going straight for as much as two 
miles before they finally start to turn. I don't know if that's true or 
not, but I do know that you won't be parallel parking an aircraft 
carrier in downtown Manhattan.

God is weaning Abraham from the human plan, so that he can move to the 
Divine plan. Although Ishmael was a valuable human being, and though God 
had a plan for Ishmael's life, Isaac, not Ishmael, was the child of 
promise. When you read the story, you see that Abraham hears God say 
this, Abraham repeats it, he appears to understand it, but he doesn't.

Sometimes God tells us something, but we just don't get it. We think 
we're tracking with God, but we're still lost in our own human plans. 
God knows that it takes time and space for us to get His plan in our 
heads. So He meets us where we are and steers us in the direction we are 
to go.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

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