FAITH CAPSULE: Deny stopover in your journey; allow God to take over.
Genesis 11:31, 12:1-9
The book of Genesis 11:31-32 records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”
Terah, the father of Abraham, left for Canaan land ever before God called Abraham to go to Canaan.
Terah started his journey to Canaan without a plan to dwell in Haran but ended up dwelt in Haran and did not get to Canaan.
One would always wonder what caused Terah to start a journey and not get to the expected end of the journey.
Could it have been that the comfort in Haran got Terah stagnated?
Have you engaged in any journey or uncompleted assignment?
It is time to begin to pay attention to God for direction that will see you through to the center of divine assignment for your life.
Terah lived for two hundred and fifty years.
With so many years on his side, he could not get to his expected destination.
Why Terah could not arrive at the expected destination was not revealed in the Bible.
However, every new journey demands a separation from the old if with a desire to arrive at the destination.
A journey not completed is an incomplete encounter.
It was the same Haran that Terah departed to Canaan land, and not arrival was the same that God called Abraham out to go to Canaan.
In a journey, there will always be a multitude that is bound to cause distraction or denial from getting to the expected end.
When God called Abraham to Canaan, it was with clear direction, unlike no direction for Terah in his journey.
God instructed Abraham, “Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you, And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3)
Abraham engaged his journey with instruction.
Have you engaged in any journey or assignment where stagnation begins to manifest?
Engaging in the direction of God is a disengagement from the incomplete journey.
A journey without direction will experience a stopover, just as Terah experienced.
In the journey, deny stopover by allowing the direction of God to take over.
Abraham did not dwell in stopover because God took over at the start of his journey.
God is a faithful God, and He will see one through if one is willing to go through.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to get to your expected end in the journey that you have embarked on.