@ Etude -Consistency

@ Etude- Consistency

Because Abraham listened to and obeyed My voice and consistently kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Genesis 26 v 5

Abraham habitually listened, persistently obeyed the voice of God as he had built up a relationship of trust with the Lord. Likewise, the first thing we need to do is to listen carefully. If we listen carefully and obey fully, we will be greatly blessed. We will be blessed with descendants or successors and they, too will be blessed like the stars of the heavens or in an immeasurable, infinite way as only the Lord God can. Such a great promise and pattern of consistent obedience should inspire each of us to also listen carefully, obey fully and keep the precepts, principles, patterns indicated in the word of God.
     
Abraham did not listen, obey, keep the Word off and on or in fits and starts but on a consistent basis, implying day after day, way after way. His consistency of attitude was what pleased the Lord and won His favour. An outstanding faith of this kind is the sure basis or foundation of a life of outstanding leadership and influence. People become inconsistent in life as they listen to many voices, the voice of peers, the voice of kith and kin, the voice of the enemy, the voices of the world. Abraham also failed once when he listened to the voice of fear and thought that he would be killed if he told Pharaoh that Sarah was his wife. He lied to protect himself, saying that she was his sister. Interestingly, the sin is repeated by his son Isaac many years later when he went into the land of a local chief Abimelech.

Habituating ourselves to a lifestyle of listening to the voice of God, His word will lead us to an attitude of obedience, a consistent pattern of conforming to the word and not the world. When we are so consistent, we will experience the great power, grace and many evidences of the outworking of the Lord in our lives. Abraham lived in the age of faith or waiting for the good news of salvation but we now live in the age of the gospel. Our sensitivity and responsiveness to the Holy Spirit on a consistent basis will determine our spiritual success, the completion of the journey we have begun in and with the Lord.