REMOVE AND MOVE
Genesis 11:27-3, Genesis 12:1-5

What is it that needs to be removed from your life before you can be moved to the center of God’s assignment for your life? In anyone’s life, whenever hindrance is set in place, man will be offset from getting settled in his placement for life. Terah, the father of Abraham was a clear example when he was set to move from the land of Ur to Canaan but failed to get to Canaan. Genesis 11:31, “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.” In truth and indeed, Terah removed himself but was not able to move to his final destination. To begin a journey and not complete is worse than not getting started on a journey. Terah could not remove himself fully in order to move to his final destination in life. There was no documentation in the Bible that specifically revealed the reason for Terah’s stagnation of not getting to the center of his journey. It was the same Canaan Land where he had decided to move to that Abraham eventually departed to when God called him out of his family. What could have caused Terah’s stagnation from getting to his desire in life? What is it that is stopping you from moving to your center of assignment? Could Terah’s stagnation be a result of comfort instead of commitment? Also, Could distraction be a factor that derailed his desired plan to get going on the journey of his life. There was no clear evidence of why Terah did not get through but it is clear that where he stopped was not his final destination. Life is a journey but getting to final destination is as important as getting the journey started. At every step in the right direction there will always be a need for things or entanglements to be removed so as to get to the final destination of the journey. Whenever there is a failure to remove what needs to be removed, getting through suffers by becoming stagnant. The Bible stated, “So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”(Genesis 11:32) Terah died in Haran despite many years on his side to complete the journey that he started. He failed by not moving to his ground of destination. Unlike Abraham, Terah was not called by God to move. Despite that, it is absolutely a lesson of consciousness for every believer to know to focus on every journey in order to disallow stagnation. Moving into our desired ground is directly rooted in total removal from our past.
 

Prayer for today: Ask God, for whatever it is that will not allow your getting to the center of God’s assignment for your life to be terminated.