No Name In History

so well known as the name of Abram. Even Christ is not more widely

known, for the Mohammedans, the Persians, and the Egyptians make a

great deal of Abram. His name has been for centuries and centuries

favorably known in Damascus. God promised him that great men, and

warriors, and kings, and emperors, should spring from his loins. Was

there ever a nation that has turned out such men? Think of Moses,

and Joseph, and Josh a, and Caleb, and Samuel, and David, and

Solomon, and Elisha. Think of Elijah, and Daniel, and Isaiah, and

all the other wonderful Bible characters that have sprung from this

man! Then think of Peter, of James, and John, and Paul, and John the

Baptist, a mighty army. No man can number the multitude of wonderful

men that have sprung from this one man called out of the land of the

Chaldeans, unknown and an idolater, probably, when God called him;

and yet how literally God has fulfiled His promise that through him

He would bless all the nations of the earth. All because he

surrendered himself fully and wholly to let God bless him.





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The last surrender is perhaps the most touching and the hardest of

all to understand. Perhaps he could not have borne it until the

evening of life. God had been taking him along, step by step, until

now he had reached a place where he had learned to obey fully

whatever God told him to do. I believe the world has yet to see what

God will do with the man who is perfectly surrendered. Next to God's

own Son, Abraham was perhaps the man who came nearest to this

standard.