Being Led Is About Knowing Our Task

The first biblical reference to being “led” is revealed in Genesis 24. Abraham, the patriarch of the Hebrew nation, sent a trusted servant on a mission to find a bride for his son, Isaac. The story reached its climax in the servant’s excited exclamation: 

“Blessed be the LORD,the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his lovingkindness and truth toward my master; as for me, I being in the way, the LORD led me...”

The key statement in the testimony is “I being in the way.”  An examination of that remark reveals some important features of being led.

The first feature: He was responsibly fulfilling an assignment.

Being led assumes a leader and leadership implies purpose. Man, made in the image of God, was designed to represent him in character and conduct. He chose, rather, to be his own god and represent himself in a character and conduct equipped with the option of evil as well as good. When a person finds forgiveness and a restored relationship with God through the finished work of Jesus Christ, he is reinstated in his purpose of representing (glorifying)God. Because the imprinted patterns of sin remain, this reinstatement is workedout in a growth process. That growth process and the assignment of making God’s character known through our character and conduct is the stuff of being “led.”

As Abraham’s servant knew and set out to fulfill his assignment of finding a bride for Isaac, so we should know and set out to fulfill our assignment to represent God well. In so doing we offer others hope of knowing the same restored relationship. As Abraham’s servant prayed for guidance in his task, so we should pray to recognize opportunities in which God leads us to fulfill our assignment.

Being led is knowing our task.

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