Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 11:31-32
It's unclear if God told Terah to go to Canaan, or if it was his own idea. But this passage made me wonder: Did God actualy choose Terah originally? But then he lost steam and stopped at Haran?
So then God had to renew his call to Terah's son Abraham instead? And so the people of God are now known as the Children of Abraham, but if Terah had followed through, we might have been known as the Children of Terah?
If this speculation is accurate, then this is another illustration of how God's plans prevail even when we humans fail Him. But then Terah lost the opportunity God gave him.
If the above theory is wrong, and it was Terah's own idea to go to Canaan, then God is still using the plans and actions of humans to further His Kingdom plan.
Terah's going part-way to Canaan, ending up at Haran (which he appears to have named after his first son who died in Ur) was still part of God's bringing Abraham to Canaan years later.
So no matter which theory is correct, let us be faithful to God's calling on our lives!
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