Men in the Bible: A Man of Ambition and Adventure
And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. – Genesis 11:31-32
The man in the Bible we shall consider today is Terah, the father of Abraham. Terah was a man of great ambition and an unusual knack for adventure. From the passage above, we read how he decided to take members of his family on a very ambitious journey from the land of Ur of the Chaldeans, where they were living, to the land of Canaan. This is a journey of about 1,900 kilometers on foot!
Not to mention that the journey would have been quite complex, tedious and laborious for all the parties involved. It would have also taken them years to complete. But Terah was ambitious enough to conceive the idea of embarking on migrating from Ur to Canaan. Further, he had no scruples about taking young members of his family, including his young grandson Lot along with him.
We may never know what made Terah conceive this grand idea of relocating his family. But whatever it was, he sure backed his intention with action as he started the journey, even though he did not complete or see it to the end. He died on the way in Haran, which was about 1,100 kilometers from Ur, and some 900 kilometers short of his planned destination. But then he covered more ground than he had remaining. That surely counts for something.
His bold move also proved pivotal and destiny-defining for his son, Abraham, who later met with God during the journey and was helped by God all the way to complete it.
Despite what is being preached about Terah as a man who did not fulfill his mission, the audacious step he took by moving his family from Ur and getting them to embark on the journey to Canaan set him apart as a man of means. Not sure either God or Abraham would agree with the popular analyses of Terah as a man with botched dreams. From the look of things, he obviously dreamed more, dared more, and covered more grounds than many of those who portray him as a failure.
Selah!
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