Today's Daily Lesson comes from Genesis chapter 11 verses 31 and 32:
31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
It is probably because the call of Abraham in the Lectionary begins with chapter 12 of Genesis so we don't read much of 11, but I don't think I've ever noticed until this morning that Terah the father of Abraham had already set out to go into the land of Canaan, a generation before his son was called to go and "be a blessing to all the families of the earth."
That means we've been traveling this road of blessing and wholeness a long, long time. We were scattered and set at odds at Babel in the beginning of chapter 11; but we have been working to come back together as a community and world almost ever since -- since even before Abraham.
Let's keep going, beloved. The Promised Land has been in our hearts since forever. Togetherness and community have been in the hearts of our fathers and mothers and father's father's mothers.
It's in our soul. And when we arrive there we will be blessed to be a blessing to all the earth.
God promises.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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