"Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (son of Haran), and his son Abram’s wife, Sarai his daughter-in-law. They left Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan, and arriving at Haran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran." - Genesis 11 It was a simple passage that I have always overlooked. Until one day Christine Caine tweeted this along with the passage: "It will always be tempting to settle before you get to your destination. Don't stop before you get there." Wow! I was blown away. source: bible-history.com Why did Terah leave Ur, one of the greatest cities in the ancient world that time? Did he hear the calling too? We don't know. But we do know that his story began right after the Tower of Babel incident (Ur was in Babylon). The Lord then dispersed the people over the face of all the earth. Terah included. Another thing we know here.. Haran was not his original destination. Canaan was. Interestingly if you
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)