One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

by Priscilla Shirer

Obedience was his top priority. First thing on his list for the day. He acted immediately in response to God’s direction. I love the fact that the Scriptures are replete with the marvelous activity of God that occurred “early in the morning.” When Abraham obeyed God’s unthinkable request to take his son, the child of promise, up to Mount Moriah and sacrifice him to the Lord there, he immediately obeyed. He left out from home with Isaac “early in the morning” (Gen. 22:3) to do what God had shown him. During the Hebrews’ ordeal in Egypt, God instructed Moses to “rise early in the morning” and present himself before Pharaoh (Exod. 8:20), telling the pagan ruler to let these people go. When David left home for what would become his epic battle with Goliath of Gath, he “arose early in the morning” (1 Sam. 17:20) to meet up with Israel’s army. The women who initially discovered that Jesus had risen from the dead were able to be the first witnesses of His resurrection because they had come to the tomb “early in the morning” (Luke 24:22).