Where Have You Settled?

The LORD had said [past tense]to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”  (Genesis 12:1, NIV 1984).

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 Haran, they settled there. (Genesis 11:31, NIV 1984).

Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. (Genesis 12:4–5, NIV 1984).

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.”  (Genesis 12:7, NIV 1984).

Now there…