Friday, 24 July 2009 02:00 | and posted in Leaving Ur
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 the came to Haran they settled there. Genesis 11:31
The direct route from Ur to Canaan was across impassable desert so Abram’s dad would have led them north and then west alongside the Euphrates River.* Just at the moment when they’re due to turn south for Canaan, they turned north and settle instead in the city of Haran.**
How easy it is sometimes to be tempted off track from God’s way by the comfort and convenience this world has to offer?
FOOTNOTES:
* Ur was a city situated next to the Euphrates River in what is now modern-day southern Iraq
** Modern-day Turkey
