Day 4, or January the 4th. God loves to guide
his people. Our thought today is rooted in Genesis
chapter 11, verse 31. 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 they came to Haran
they settled there. Now the big picture surrounding
this verse. Following Noah's flood the population
of the world soon expands again and at that time
every one on earth not surprisingly speaks the
same language that of Noah however mankind soon
get up to their old tricks again and they begin
to build a tower at Babel (which would
later become Babylon), in order to reach up to
God and thereby become gods themselves. The unique
plan of God is to confuse their languages so
that they form language groups and spread widely
throughout the world to create nations, which
is just what God had planned in the first place.
Later, out of this chaos came a man who God trusts,
a man called Abram, who would later become Abraham.
He leaves his home in Ur, not far from the Persian
Gulf, and travels toward the promised land of
Canaan, later to be called Palestine, and then
Israel, only to be delayed on the way when he
settles in Haran, in modern-day Turkey. And now
our action step for today. The account of Abraham
is one of the most encouraging for those who
are seeking God and his guidance. Despite getting
it dramatically wrong by settling in the wrong
country, God never gives up on Abraham, but continues
to guide him until he is in the right place for
God to use. God will do the same for you, and
me too. If we make mistakes like Abraham did,
God is more than able to guide us back onto the
right track. The important thing is that we keep
seeking and moving. Don't just sit there asking
God to guide you. Start to move on and then ask
God if this is the right direction. Then move
on some more.