FAITH CAPSULE: Direction with focus for every journey of life is certain to arrive at expected end.
Genesis 11:27-32, 12:1-9
Living life is like a journey of life. Receiving direction for every journey of life and having focus is crucial to arrive at expected end of journey. Receiving direction without focus is set to become a victim of distraction, delay, derailment, discouragement or encountering untimely termination of life journey. In reality, journey of life must be cooperated with focus meaning to make journey as a center of activity or attention. Without doubt, it is focus that will give clear vision of life journey to arrival at expected end. Having direction is being loaded with potential. A failure not to arrive the end of journey is having potential and not manifesting the potentiality with focus to arrive at the end of journey.
To learn in the written word of God will mark man not to become a victim in the journey of life. Terah, the father of Abraham’s documentation is for man to learn from and not become a victim of failure which does not arrive at expected journey of life.
Genesis 11:31-32 recorded, “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 for journey to Canaan land. Terah’s journey to Canaan could be Terah’s ambition to move to Canaan. However, ambition can be reason while vision is God’s plan Ambition is also determination but determination without spiritual connectivity is always reason for failure in journey of life. Peter was example with determination not to deny Jesus three times but he denied Jesus three times. It was Jesus’ prayer for Peter not to fail that delivered Peter from his failure determination statement. Jesus’ prayer answered for Peter as his spiritual connectivity.
When Terah engaged his journey to Canaan, there was no record of his plan to dwell in Haran but ended up dwelling in Haran by not getting to Canaan.
It is questioning why Terah started journey to Canaan and ended up in Haran. Could it have been that the comfort in Haran got Terah stagnated to end his journey? Have you engaged any journey or giving up assignment uncompleted? Speculating about Terah is possible to be ambition with distraction the evidence of the lack of focus. It is time to begin to pay attention to God’s direction with focus which is certain to see man through to the center of God’s divine agenda for man’s journey of life.
Imagine, Terah lived for two hundred and fifty years. With so many years on his side he could not get through to his expected journey of life. Gain and retain focus to maintain expectation for arrival at the journey of life.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you in getting to your expected end in the journey of life.