You know, it all comes down to faith and obedience. Abraham has demonstrated by faith that he will do whatever the Lord asks of him and furthermore, that he will share this knowledge and wisdom with his family. In other words, God opens doors for Abraham and Abraham walks through them. It stands to reason that if God has not spoken to you, or He has stopped talking to you, there is a spiritual threshold you need to cross—go through that door and God will provide another.
The truth of the matter is that God desires to bring us all into the loop; He wants to reveal to us more and more of His plan. But what have we done with the information He has already given us? Have we kept it to ourselves? Do our families know these revelations? God honors our obedience, not our disobedience, so if you’re not hearing Him go back to the place where you last did [hear Him] and do what He said.
So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and…every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him. Genesis 17:23
What Has God Asked You to Do?
Compared to Abraham’s gargantuan task, what has God asked you to do? I believe, at least in part, that God gave us an extreme example so that everything He would ask us to do would pale in comparison. There are three elements of Abraham’s faith that should leap out of the text and all three deal with obedience.
The first thing we notice as that Abraham took his son to be circumcised; he did not merely suggest to him that this was something he should do on his own. Let’s be honest, if Abraham left it up to the boy, it never would have been done. If you have a son, consider the present condition of his room…I rest my case.
Secondly we see Abraham imposed his faith upon everyone under his roof. It was compulsory. It does not mean that everyone believed in God as he did, but rather that everyone in his home would live by God’s moral standard. ‘My house, my rules, ’ is quite doctrinal as long as your rules jive with God’s.
The final principle is essential—Abraham practiced what he preached. There was no debate and there were no justifications, there was just obedience. God said it, he did it, and then he shared it. As a result God honored it and spoke clearly to him.
He Dwells -- The B'log in My Eye 