BE BLAMELESS

The first kind of perfection is found in Genesis 17:1, God speaks to Abraham and says, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.” When did God talk to Abraham to walk before Him blameless or undefiled? It was after Abraham was in Egypt; after Abraham said that Sarah was his sister; after he birthed Ishmael, which means God heard me in my affliction, and after God blessed Ishmael that God wanted to establish a covenant relationship with Abraham. When there was a covenant relationship with God, the pieces of the sacrifice upon the altar were separated that the fire could come between the pieces as a covenant sign that the sacrifice was acceptable and that the covenant was intact because it is a two-way agreement.

Covenants do not mean much today because our feelings are more important than the covenant itself. We are absolutely an Ishmael generation. We want to be an Issac, but we are an Ishmael because Ishmael was blessed, but he was a wild man as God said in Genesis 16:12, “Every hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.” God blessed Ishmael and there was a multitude of Ishmaelites He blessed in their affliction. Many of us only experience God in the blessing that God gives us in our affliction, and we do not know Him because of the covenant relationship.

God’s purpose in establishing a covenant relationship, as He circumcised the children of Israel and made them vulnerable in their manhood, was to make their dependency on Him and not on their own strength. That is why God said to Abraham, “Walk before Me and be blameless, “ so that the children of Israel would not walk in their own independence. They had to walk in their own vulnerability before God.

Under the new covenant that was established through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, we no longer need to be physically circumcised, but we have to have a circumcision of heart. If our heart is circumcised before God, we have to walk blameless. When we are in covenant with God we cannot know Him as a settler. God called Abraham out a place of being settled in the Ur of the Chaldeans and made him a pilgrim. The difference between Ishmael and Abraham is that Ishmael was a nomad, but Abraham was a pilgrim. That means a nomad is some one who takes his tent and moves to a place where his needs are met. When there is nothing left, a nomad will take his tent and move to a new place and turn the fruitful place into desolation, and then move on again. A pilgrim does not stay anywhere. A pilgrim walks through sorrow, grief, loneliness, hurt right into the fiery furnace until the fourth man appears as in the story in Daniel of the three Hebrew children. When we do not walk through things, we will not stay blameless or undefiled because we will acquire the stench, the smell, where we settle. Some of us have the smell of death upon us. Some of us have the smell of failure and the smell of carnality and flesh that still lingers upon us before God.

When we settle, we cannot stay undefiled. When we become defiled, we cannot make decisions because we are covenant breakers and we cannot walk in the power and anointing of the Spirit of God. The decisions that are made are after the scent that we carry. As we come into agreement with God and walk blameless in covenant relationship with God, it won’t make any difference what we walk through because it will be for a purpose. All of us have to walk through the things that we want to possess. We will not possess anything watching on the side. Any kind of defilement colors our decisions and we will make the wrong chose.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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