Never to Old

Why do we assume that when we reach a certain age we don't need to listen. It doesn't matter the age we are, teens feel they are to old to listen to adults. Adults don't want to listen to those who retired. Retired folks don't care to listen to the young adults. Find an age and you can find another age group to whom they won't want to listen.

Now, before I go to Abram's beginning journey, I do realize that people tended to live much longer than they do today.

When I was young (no wise cracks as to how long ago that was), my parents would pile my brother, sister and me into the car and we start on a trip to no where in particular. The trip went like this, at each intersection, one person got to choose which way to go, right, left and straight ahead. We would travel like that for an hour or so until my dad decide it was time to go home...then he would figure out where we were and get us back home. (no GPS then either).

The trip that Abram begins reminds me of those day except God was deciding and telling Abram how to go until he arrived at Canaan. Notice the trip begins with Abram's obedience to the Lord's instruction to go.

Gen 12:4-9
4 So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, " To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. 8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev. NASU

The Lord does not need to tell us where our trip will wind up or what awaits us at the end of the journey. We are just expected to obey and let the details and results to the Lord.

Do not use your age as an excuse to be obedient to God. "I am to old"..."I am to young"... "We bought a house"...."I am close to retiring".. All these are not reasons to avoid being obedient to the Lord command on your life.