God called Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees which at that time was culturally advanced and the most happening place in the world. It was famous for the 3 R’s (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic); and was a very comfortable place to live. God called him, giving him many promises, but never allowed him to enjoy them immediately. It took twenty five years to have his promised seed Isaac and till his death, he never got to see the title deeds of the Promised Land. When God told him that Shechem was the place for him, there was a famine in that land. He moved with the knowledge that God Himself was the source of his security and understood that it was safer to follow God than his own feelings. He never took any decisions for himself based on human perspective, but based on God’s word of promise, except in the case of Ishmael’s birth.

            The people of Israel, whom Moses brought out of Egypt to the wilderness, responded ten times based on human perspective and not on the revelation of who God was or what God did for them (Numbers 14:21, 22). However, Caleb, one among the six lakh slaves that left Egypt, during his spying trip to Canaan, never saw the giants through human eyes, but through the promise of God’s word  (Numbers 14:24).

            Finally, when Satan challenged Jesus to turn the stones to bread, Jesus did not use the situation to his own personal advantage, (from the point of human perspective), but used God’s word to counter the temptation (Matthew 4:3, 4).

Thought for the day: When we always see and do things in human perspective, we undermine who God is and His omnipotence.