It all starts in Genesis, when God created the earth and everything in it. When he created Adam and Eve in His own image, He had told Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden [Genesis 3:2-3]. However, satan tempted Eve, and Eve gave in and gave Adam the fruit and he also ate of the fruit. They were both rebellious to God. What did they do afterward when God had called them? They had hid, because they felt ashamed, for they knew they were naked. It seems rather common for us to attemp to hide from God after we rebel against Him, because we know we have dissapointed Him. I am in the process of reading through the book of Genesis; its quite interesting following the seed of Abraham through out the book.I was talking to my Dad about Noah and how he was drunk from wine after he had gotten off the ark[Genesis 9:21]. I didn’t understand, I thought God said getting drunk was sinful? My Dad then brought something to my attention, he told me that even a man as close to God as Noah was, fell short of God’s glory. I read on about Isaac’s sons Jacob and Esau. Jacob had deceived his father so he could obtain the blessing from him. But I just did not understand,why God would of chosen Jacob to carry on the seed of Abraham, Jacob seemed so deceiving. However, if you compare the two, Esau gave up the permanent for the immediate, when he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of red stew. Jacob was the chosen one, because God knew he would be the faithful one, and he would yeild to God’s will for his life. Esau did not think things through, he was controlled by fleshly desires and material affairs.

Even the strongest fall, I have learned. It does not mean that God will not use you, it means you need to get up, yeild to His calling and follow after where He leads. From Adam and Eve’s fall, to Noah, down to Jacob and Esau- was some sort of rebellion towards GOD, but all of them realized their sin, and did not live in it. They strived for obedience, they left their homelands in order to follow God’s calling. Its funny, as you read through thinking "God, do you know what you are getting youself into?" until you think about what you are asking; of course He does! He does have His reasons for where He calls His children and who He calls for certain things- we need not to question God in what He asks, just go along for the ride. God chose Noah for the ark- because He knew Noah would get the job done. He chose Abraham to lead His people out of his homeland Ur, because He knew Abraham could not fulfill his calling in a land full of idol worshippers; He knew Abraham would be obedient, so He chose him. And the seed was passed on to Issac, his son, to be obedient- He was called to give his son as a burnt offering, and Abraham was willing to do so. Isaac then was faithful to the LORD and his son Jacob was. God knew what he was doing when He lead those people to carry on the seed, that would one day bring the Messiah into the world.

We need to be willing to obey and go where ever God is calling, just as those men and their wives, and their children did for the LORD. If we teach our children to follow the LORD, then it will be passed on. I pray we all start following the LORD as Abraham, and the rest of them.