TO YOUR DESCENDANTS (47 OF 52)
Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9
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To Your Descendants (47 of 52)
Series: Discipleship Part Two
Christopher B. Harbin
Genesis 12:1-9
We like to see results from our efforts and investments. We like to look back at what we have done and be able to recognize a difference as the result of our expended time and energy. It is partly why we don't make plans for the far future. It is part of why we do not save up for the future as we are told we should. We want to see results, and we want to see them now. It's why we plant vegetables rather than trees, why we build houses rather than plan cities, why we fix roads rather than plan mass transit. What happens when we are called to longer-term projects that do not promise visible results? What happens when God calls us to live for rewards that seem too far away from our present reality?
Abram was called by God to take up a long migration. He may have been part of a wave of migrants who left the river regions of what we know today as Iraq. He left his homeland, migrating with the family herds Northwest into Syria and South into Palestine and Egypt. This journey had begun under the leadership of his father, Terah. They led sought new pastures and water, traveling as far as Haran in Syria, settling there before Terah passed away. Then Yahweh called Abram to take up the migration, promising to lead him to a land he did not know, beyond anything he had experienced with his father. Abram was now the patriarch of his nomadic clan of herdsmen. He took Lot, his nephew, bid farewell to his larger family, and continued the journey set before him.
This might not seem like much to us. We are used to contemplating trips of a thousand miles or more. We are used to thinking in terms of a drive or a move from New York to Florida, from Virginia to Texas, or even Maine to California. We think of interstate highways, airplanes, and cruises across the oceans as no big deal. In Abram's case, this journey was nothing of the kind. There were no U-Haul trucks to hire for ...
Series: Discipleship Part Two
Christopher B. Harbin
Genesis 12:1-9
We like to see results from our efforts and investments. We like to look back at what we have done and be able to recognize a difference as the result of our expended time and energy. It is partly why we don't make plans for the far future. It is part of why we do not save up for the future as we are told we should. We want to see results, and we want to see them now. It's why we plant vegetables rather than trees, why we build houses rather than plan cities, why we fix roads rather than plan mass transit. What happens when we are called to longer-term projects that do not promise visible results? What happens when God calls us to live for rewards that seem too far away from our present reality?
Abram was called by God to take up a long migration. He may have been part of a wave of migrants who left the river regions of what we know today as Iraq. He left his homeland, migrating with the family herds Northwest into Syria and South into Palestine and Egypt. This journey had begun under the leadership of his father, Terah. They led sought new pastures and water, traveling as far as Haran in Syria, settling there before Terah passed away. Then Yahweh called Abram to take up the migration, promising to lead him to a land he did not know, beyond anything he had experienced with his father. Abram was now the patriarch of his nomadic clan of herdsmen. He took Lot, his nephew, bid farewell to his larger family, and continued the journey set before him.
This might not seem like much to us. We are used to contemplating trips of a thousand miles or more. We are used to thinking in terms of a drive or a move from New York to Florida, from Virginia to Texas, or even Maine to California. We think of interstate highways, airplanes, and cruises across the oceans as no big deal. In Abram's case, this journey was nothing of the kind. There were no U-Haul trucks to hire for ...
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