4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land (Genesis 12:4-6).
We are never too old to start in a new direction, especially if God desires it to be so. Abraham was an old man when he obeyed God and departed his homeland. He went ‘all in’; he took everything and put his entire trust in God. He went to a place and to a people he was not familiar. Can you imagine the conversation with Sarah? Ya, Sarah, God told me to leave for a distant land and take everything with me, including you. But Abraham knew God and he knew that God would provide. Human history was changed through God’s faithfulness to Abraham.
We are never too old to start in a new direction, especially if God desires it to be so. Abraham was an old man when he obeyed God and departed his homeland. He went ‘all in’; he took everything and put his entire trust in God. He went to a place and to a people he was not familiar. Can you imagine the conversation with Sarah? Ya, Sarah, God told me to leave for a distant land and take everything with me, including you. But Abraham knew God and he knew that God would provide. Human history was changed through God’s faithfulness to Abraham.
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