Genesis 11:27- Genesis 12:1 (New International Version)
27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 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 Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Genesis 12:
1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.
Before God gave the promise to Abraham He came first to Terah since obviously he's the father of Abraham but somewhere along the way Terah was not able to attain to the promise of God and later Abraham earned the promise for himself and his descendants. With this event, we can learn several things.
1. Stick with people who are blessed by God. Abram sticked with his father Terah to attain God's blessings even if it means leaving their comfort zone and setting out on the unknown. (verse 31)
2. Don't be contented with second hand blessings but insist on getting it first hand. Notice the last sentence "But when they came to Haran, they settled there." on verse 31, somehow Terah never pursued God anymore to get to the promise land and settled in for second or third best which is Haran, however Abraham pursued it as depicted in Genesis 12:1 and as a result based on Chapter 12, Abraham like a trained soldier of God, followed God with no questions at all. He never complained saying "First, I lost my relatives leaving them, secondly, I lost my father, blah blah" Nothing like that, Abraham obeyed God during the hard times.
3. You can be blessed by God inside or outside of the promise, but choose to obey God inside the promise. For example, God might need you as a minister but you end up as a webmaster, God will see His ways fulfilled in you, all in due time but God needs undivided loyalty and focus to his promise, He needs you inside the "promise land", surely Terah got blessed outside of the promise but Abraham chooses to be inside God's promises to get the blessings even if it means offering his first born son, Isaac.
4. Stick with the Blessor not the blessings. Finally God is the one who's giving the blessings, not you, not your own strength, ability, talents, remember even those are given by God to you, even your whole existence in this world, so follow God and don't settle for the blessings. If you have God, you have everything.
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Terah versus Abraham by: William R. Nabaza of www.Nabaza.com
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