LIFE SCRIPTS

Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
Genesis 11:29‭-‬32 NIV
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Scripture now zeroes into the lives of the two remaining sons of Terah, Abram and Nahor. We’re told that they both married. Their wives were Sarai and Milkah respectively. We’re told about Milkah’s lineage. However, we’re not informed about Sarai’s. Instead, we’re told that she was a barren lady. God’s eyes would focus on this man married to a woman who wouldn’t conceive. In a world where sin prevailed, He would use the lineage of this man with a barren wife to raise up a new generation. The generation of the children of Israel.

Abram was in God’s focus all along. God wanted to use him. However, He needed to prepare him for the assignment He had for him. So his father, Terah, planned to migrate to an unknown land. But even as he did so, he took only Abram, his wife Sarai and Lot. Nahor and his family were left behind. God was beginning the process of setting aside Abram for His purposes. All this happened within the natural scheme of things. Seemingly ordinary events could be used by God to usher in His will. After the party left Ur of the Chaldees, they settled in the land of Harran where Terah, Abram’s father died. It’s possible that the call of God upon Abram had been active during or even before this time. In Genesis 12:1, scripture states that the Lord ‘had called’ Abram. It’s possible that God’s call upon Abram was not just a single pronouncement He made to him. God used different circumstances in Abram’s life to lead him towards His calling; from the migration led by his father, to leaving his brother, Nahor, to the death of his father. God is a God who sometimes uses circumstances to lead us towards His will. Ultimately, God would place the clear call on him. Sometimes God orchestrates a rearrangement of situations around us to lead us towards His calling for us. Such was the state of Abram’s life. God was active in it. Probably he wasn’t aware. However in the course of time, God would make His desires clear to him.