Now we can go ahead and see the history of God’s second attempt to save us. It is like the father of the younger son who ran to meet the boy as he walked along the road. You must judge for yourself whether you can believe what is described here. You must decide whether God is speaking to you and calling you through these events. No one can make that decision for you.

It is such an important matter for you personally that it would be good to pause here for a minute to ask God in a simple and sincere prayer to give you His light to see what path or marg He wants you to follow.

As we said in the beginning we are not studying mathematics or geography. We are considering the way to the Father. We are considering what is really the most important thing in the life of a man or woman. It concerns what will happen to me in that terrible moment after my death.

GOD CHOOSES HIS MAN

After the failure of Adam and Eve, sin spread in the world, among their children. As men multiplied and began to fill God’s wonderful world, sin and evil spread with them. For all of us know from our own experience that there is a struggle within ourselves, a tendency to sin, to worship my own self and my selfish desires instead of God, my true Lord and Master.

But in spite of this, God did not forget the human race which He had created and loved so much. After many years and long preparation, He stepped into human history – at a certain place and a certain time, for this is the only way one can meet men.

God sent His message to a man in Ur , an obscure place in Arabia midway between what we call today East and West. This man’s name was Abram. He was old and had no children, for his wife Sarah was barren. But let us follow the story in the Bible’s words:

“The Lord said to Abram: `Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you: I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.’

“Abram went as the Lord directed him and with him went his nephew Lot . Abram was seventy five years old at the time……He took all his possessions and set out for the land of Canaan ” (Genesis 12,1-5).

Abram followed God’s call – even though it meant setting out for a strange land. God told him he would bless him and He was true to His word. Abram and his family found great prosperity.

God made further promises to this man of His choice: “The Lord said to Abram: `Look about you, and from where you are, gaze to the north and south, east and west: all the land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever. I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, past all counting. Set forth and walk about in the land through its length and breadth, for to you I will give it. Abram moved his tents and went on to settle near the Terebinth of Mamre, which is at Hebron . There he built an altar to the Lord”. (Genesis 13, 14-18)