Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
This passage is found in Genesis 11 and to be honest even though I've read it many times before I didn't see this as important before today. I knew that Abram's family left Ur to go to Canaan, however I hadn't thought before that he and his family settled somewhere else first. In fact it was Abram's father that moved the family towards Canaan, but it was Abram that actually got there.
I think this story is really important to our lives today. We so often head off in the direction God wants us to go and end up settling in the comfort zone. It is so easy in our Christian walks to get complacent, to allow the comfortableness to keep us where we are, or living the way we live, or even doing what we are doing when God actually wants us to move into the land of blessing. Terah knew that Canaan was the direction to head for, he must have done, but he got to Harran and stayed put instead of moving to where God wanted the family to go. It was in fact Abram that took the move further, it was Abram that left Harran and moved to Canaan into the land of blessing and it is through Abram that God makes the covenant.
When we choose to follow God's lead and move into the place of promise, then that will be the place of blessing. We need to make sure that we don't settle for second best, just because its comfortable doesn't mean that it's the place that God wants us to be in. We need to make sure that we move with God and not stay still in the places that man puts us.
I think this story is really important to our lives today. We so often head off in the direction God wants us to go and end up settling in the comfort zone. It is so easy in our Christian walks to get complacent, to allow the comfortableness to keep us where we are, or living the way we live, or even doing what we are doing when God actually wants us to move into the land of blessing. Terah knew that Canaan was the direction to head for, he must have done, but he got to Harran and stayed put instead of moving to where God wanted the family to go. It was in fact Abram that took the move further, it was Abram that left Harran and moved to Canaan into the land of blessing and it is through Abram that God makes the covenant.
When we choose to follow God's lead and move into the place of promise, then that will be the place of blessing. We need to make sure that we don't settle for second best, just because its comfortable doesn't mean that it's the place that God wants us to be in. We need to make sure that we move with God and not stay still in the places that man puts us.
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