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DAY 4 God loves to guide his people. Our thought

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today is rooted in Genesis chapter 11 verse 31.

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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sere,

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the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to

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Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. Now the big picture surrounding

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this verse. Following Noah's flood, the population of

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the world soon expands again, and at that time everyone on earth, not surprisingly,

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speaks the same language, that of Noah. However, mankind soon get up to their old tricks again,

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and they begin to build a tower at Babel, which would later become Babylon, in order

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to reach up to God and thereby become gods themselves. The unique plan of God is to confuse

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their languages so that they form language groups and spread widely throughout the world

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to create nations, which is just what God had planned in the first place. Later, out

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of this chaos came a man who God trusts, a man called Abram, who would later become Abraham.

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He leaves his home in Ur not far from the Persian Gulf, and travels toward the promised

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land of Canaan, later to be called Palestine and then Israel, only to be delayed on the

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way when he settles in Haran, in modern-day Turkey.

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And our action step for today. The account of Abram is one of the most encouraging

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for those who are seeking God and His guidance. Despite getting it dramatically wrong by settling

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in the wrong country, God never gives up on Abram, but continues to guide him until he

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is in the right place for God to use. God will do the same for you, and me too. If we

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make mistakes like Abram did, God is more than able to guide us back onto the right

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track. The important thing is that we keep seeking and moving. Don't just sit there

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asking God to guide you. Start to move on, and then ask God if this is the right direction.

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Then move on some more.