’tis The Season To Walk With God Series

ILL.- I recently heard an interview on the internet which was first on TV. It was the most recent interview of Billy Graham with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren. It took place on Monday, December 20, 2010. Graham said, “I have a tremendous amount of hope because I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead. I believe he is alive right now. My wife is already in heaven. I look forward to seeing her definitely in the near future because I’m 92 now and I know that my time is limited on this earth. But I have tremendous hope in the fact I’ll be in the future life. And I’ll be there because of what Jesus Christ did for me on the cross and by the resurrection. And this gives me a great deal of hope.”

VAN SUSTEREN: If you were to do things over again, would you do it differently?

GRAHAM: Yes. I would study more. I would pray more, travel less, take less speaking engagements. I took too many of them in too many places around the world. If I had it to do over again, I’d spend more time in meditation and prayer and just telling the Lord how much I love him and adore him and looking forward the time we’re going to spend together for eternity.

To the best of my knowledge, Billy Graham has always walked with God in a blameless manner. I’ve never heard of any accusation against him. How could he live such a blameless life?

He would be the first to say that it can only happen when you walk with God in faith. He would not say, “Well, folks, I did it my way.” No, he would say, “God opposes the proud but he gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.” (I Peter 5:5-6)

Graham’s blameless life came from his walk with God. No man, no human being can be his very best without God’s grace and blessing on his life.

Billy Graham is something of an Abraham when it comes to living by faith. Although I believe that Billy Graham would be humble enough to say that his faith doesn’t even come close to that of Abraham. Billy Graham has preached Christ to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories through various meetings.

In Abraham’s walk with God he exercised great faith. Abraham’s faith was evident when God called him to leave his home country and go to a foreign land.

Genesis 12:1 “The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” V. 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.

It took a lot of faith on Abraham’s part to leave his home country for a place he’d never seen. But he trusted God. He walked by faith. When Billy Graham traveled to those 185 different countries he knew where he was going and his traveling method was quite different from Abraham’s means of traveling. But there was more to come that would test Abraham’s walk of faith. The greatest test of all was yet to come!

Genesis 22:2 “Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Wow! Amazing! But Abraham also had amazing faith in God.