Servanthood Later

And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

3 And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Well, the Lord's just appeared to his people it seems. He's awfully good to them thus far or so just been good to man. Levi is all about service surely which meant he was more than happy to fetch bread and water, to make them some food, and even to give of their lives. It's this service perspective that finds the Lord ready and waiting to do good to his children. So often some of us I'm afraid would like to tell the Lord a lot of bad things. We'd like to tell him we're too tired and just cannot do what he said. The issue here is that God's mercy and grace is at stake in all of our lives. It's a perspective truly that allows us to serve him no matter wherever we're placed in the end and so too to do just what he's said. Abraham not having been contented with an outwardly serving the Lord also proceeded to invite him inside of their home, such as it was back in the day save but only a refuge from the burden and the heat of the way. Then after inviting the Lord to share all his home, he preceded not to leave them alone. He promised that Sarah would soon find herself bearing a burden, that of a child or in other ways wearing. It's perhaps not quite the Messiah that's been promised to men, though you know it was a start on what the Lord had promised for then. There's also that of the fear in what these had started for then for service isn't always taken for granted of there in the end. Sometimes it comes with a risk also of not doing his will that allows these to slip. You know though, when our God was involved, Abraham was already halfway positioned in serving the Lord right where he was in his own community central at least when it came to where our God had placed him as there as a person. It's just that he'd only to find his reason and purpose in serving him thus. Certainly our God wasn't going to let him stop serving him nor yet leave off of his promise to them in the end.