Go Forth and Go With

 

The LORD,

before Whom I have walked,

will send His angel with you

        and prosper your way.

                Genesis 24. 40

The actual structure

of the verse in Hebrew says,

"who I have walked before."

Abraham had walked 

  many miles with God,

not the first time of responding

to God to go along,

to go through, to follow,

to pursue, to go one's way,

to go on, 

not just to go forth,

  but to go forward in anything.

Abraham knew

to follow the LORD

even when he didn't understand,

   which was a lot of times.

To prosper may not initially appear

         as a grand success,

but beyond surviving

  to thriving in the unexpected,

to flourish and fulfill

      in the most unlikely ways.

God goes before us.

God goes with us.

We each have a chronicle

       of His faithfulness,

not yet finished.

O LORD,

Help us to trust You in this.

May we be assured 

   that You are with us,

guiding us 

      in the way we should go

  in the familiar

      and the dark unknown.

Not just to go forth,

   but to go with.

I can't do this.

    And you respond,

      But I am with you.

Empower us

     to follow You into it.   

 

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