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Day 4, or January the 4th. God loves to guide

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his people. Our thought today is rooted in Genesis

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chapter 11, verse 31. Terah took his son Abram,

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his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter

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-in -law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and

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together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans

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to go to Canaan, but when they came to Haran

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they settled there. Now the big picture surrounding

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this verse. Following Noah's flood the population

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of the world soon expands again and at that time

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every one on earth not surprisingly speaks the

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same language that of Noah however mankind soon

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get up to their old tricks again and they begin

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to build a tower at Babel (which would

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later become Babylon), in order to reach up to

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God and thereby become gods themselves. The unique

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plan of God is to confuse their languages so

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that they form language groups and spread widely

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throughout the world to create nations, which

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is just what God had planned in the first place.

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Later, out of this chaos came a man who God trusts,

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a man called Abram, who would later become Abraham.

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He leaves his home in Ur, not far from the Persian

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Gulf, and travels toward the promised land of

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Canaan, later to be called Palestine, and then

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Israel, only to be delayed on the way when he

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settles in Haran, in modern-day Turkey. And now

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our action step for today. The account of Abraham

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is one of the most encouraging for those who

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are seeking God and his guidance. Despite getting

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it dramatically wrong by settling in the wrong

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country, God never gives up on Abraham, but continues

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to guide him until he is in the right place for

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God to use. God will do the same for you, and

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me too. If we make mistakes like Abraham did,

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God is more than able to guide us back onto the

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right track. The important thing is that we keep

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seeking and moving. Don't just sit there asking

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God to guide you. Start to move on and then ask

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God if this is the right direction. Then move

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on some more.