Genesis 11:27 – 12:7
27 Here are the generations from Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30 But Sarai was infertile; she had no child.
31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans purposing to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kin and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 So Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the souls that they had made in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were still occupying the land.
7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to worship the LORD, who had appeared to him. _________________________________________
Faith, obedience and worship
Abram was a man of faith at the outset. He trusted the LORD who promised him the land, even when the land was still occupied by the Canaanites. He obeyed and went wherever the LORD sent him. He worshipped along the way.
LORD, make us children of Abraham, trusting, obeying, and worshipping wherever you send us.
