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When God Says Go
Weekly Edition #42: November 12th, 2025
Verse I Like:
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”
Weekly Dose
What if faith isn’t about knowing where you’re going, but trusting who’s leading you there?
Too often, we try to plan the entire journey before we ever take the first step. We want the map, the timing, the guarantee. But that’s not how it works.
Picture a young boy, full of hopes and dreams of becoming an NHL player. Wouldn’t it be ridiculous if he were so worried about what NHL team he was going to play for that he never even learned to skate?
Faith begins where certainty ends. It’s the courage to take step one, believing step two will reveal itself only after you act. By the time you are certain, it is too late.
There is good evidence that this pursuit and act of courage will lead to, and is, the adventure of your life, trusting the unseen hand that draws the path as you walk it.
Quotes I Like:
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
Mane Message
Abraham didn’t wait until he fully believed before he acted. His belief was in the action. The two were inseparable. With every step, he carried out his faith, and each act of faith deepened his belief.
In Genesis 12, God tells Abraham, “Go from your country, your people, and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” Just a direction and a promise. And Abraham acts in faith.
That’s the remarkable thing—faith didn’t start when he arrived at the destination or when he had any proof other than the one who called. But it started when he acted. His obedience and faithfulness led to certainty. Not the other way around.
We often want faith to feel secure before we act. We wait for the sign, the comfort, the clarity. But Abraham reminds us that sometimes belief isn’t proven by what we feel, but by what we do when we can’t yet see.
Faith is not the absence of uncertainty and doubt, but the decision to walk with it and overcome it. Every step Abraham took was a silent declaration, “I trust the One who called me, even if I don’t yet know where He’s leading me.”
The call is the invitation. The journey itself is the act of faith.
Weekly Ponder
How many blessings have we missed waiting for certainty instead of moving in faith?
Would Abraham’s story have ever been written if he had waited for a full itinerary?
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