When they came to Harran, they settled there (Genesis
11:31).
Most authorities say Genesis 12:3 (NASB – And in you all
the families of the earth shall be blessed.) is the pivotal verse of the
Old Testament. That may be, but right now it’s a verse in chapter eleven that
catches my attention: 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
Harran, they settled there (Genesis 11:31).
Terah wanted to take his family to Canaan. It was a long
journey (a conservative estimate would be about 1,000 miles), and when they got
to Harran, they settled there. When I read that my brain takes me in two
different directions.
First, I can’t get past the word settled. How often
do we have a God-given goal in mind, yet stop half-way, settling for something
less than God intended? Is that what happened to Terah? Or…
Second, …can the journey to where God is leading us take
more than just one generation? Sometimes we are blessed to take our families
all the way; and at other times our kids or even our grandkids will
finish the journey we began. Maybe they’ll look back and say, “Thanks, Grandma
and Grandpa for taking us far as you could. We wouldn’t have made it without
you.”
TODAY’S MEDITATION
How are you progressing on
your journey? What will that mean to your grandchildren? What do you want them
to say about you?
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