Hi everyone! Today i wanted to share a little thought.
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. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. (Genesis 11.31-32)
Today I wanted to talk about things that prevent us from achieving the things God has for us and, consequently, heaven.
The text above tells us a piece of the story of Terah, Abraham's father, and how they left Ur heading towards Canaan, but before this happened, it is said that Terah had a son named Haran, who died in the city of Ur, while they were still living there. After they set out for Canaan, it is said that Terah stopped at a city called Haran, and did not continue his journey to Canaan. He died there and never reached Canaan.
What we can understand from this text is that Terah, father of Abraham and Haran, instead of continuing his journey to Canaan, remained trapped in the city that bore his son's name, and did not continue on his journey. It is as if he was stuck in the past, mourning the death of his son Haran.
Those who live thinking about the past and do not look forward cannot achieve what God has for them. People who don't forgive someone who hurt them, people who can't forgive themselves, people who keep saying that a certain time in the past was better than now, and other types of people who can't let go things from the past, don't achieve what God has for them. Of course, missing a certain moment in the past or remembering good memories happens, but living in that moment and using it to compare the present and complain is not a healthy attitude.
Another example we can take of people who ended up being deprived of achieving what God had for them was the people of Israel in the desert. We can give as an example of what they did the fact that they remembered the past too. Every time they faced a difficult moment they said: "Oh in Egypt such and such was better". Do you know how serious this is? Imagine someone that God took away from crime, and when that person faces a difficult situation he starts to say: "When I was in crime, I just had to steal and everything was solved."
But after a certain point, we see the Israelites worshiping other gods, we see them complaining and even confronting God. In all these moments, we see God disciplining them, but they did not change. At all times we see God forgiving. The limit for God was when they did not want to enter the promised land, but stayed complaining in their tents.Things got so bad that the people wanted to stone Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 14.6-10)
There are people who God deals with. God disciplines them over the years, but they don't want to change. They prefer to continue with their bad habits and behaviors, thinking that somehow this will benefit them, but they don't realize that this actually harms them. In the end, this prevents them from achieving what God has for them. People who do not want to change their bad habits also do not achieve what God has for them, nor heaven.
Hi everyone! Today i wanted to share a little thought.
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. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. (Genesis 11.31-32)
Today I wanted to talk about things that prevent us from achieving the things God has for us and, consequently, heaven.
The text above tells us a piece of the story of Terah, Abraham's father, and how they left Ur heading towards Canaan, but before this happened, it is said that Terah had a son named Haran, who died in the city of Ur, while they were still living there. After they set out for Canaan, it is said that Terah stopped at a city called Haran, and did not continue his journey to Canaan. He died there and never reached Canaan.
What we can understand from this text is that Terah, father of Abraham and Haran, instead of continuing his journey to Canaan, remained trapped in the city that bore his son's name, and did not continue on his journey. It is as if he was stuck in the past, mourning the death of his son Haran.
Those who live thinking about the past and do not look forward cannot achieve what God has for them. People who don't forgive someone who hurt them, people who can't forgive themselves, people who keep saying that a certain time in the past was better than now, and other types of people who can't let go things from the past, don't achieve what God has for them. Of course, missing a certain moment in the past or remembering good memories happens, but living in that moment and using it to compare the present and complain is not a healthy attitude.
Another example we can take of people who ended up being deprived of achieving what God had for them was the people of Israel in the desert. We can give as an example of what they did the fact that they remembered the past too. Every time they faced a difficult moment they said: "Oh in Egypt such and such was better". Do you know how serious this is? Imagine someone that God took away from crime, and when that person faces a difficult situation he starts to say: "When I was in crime, I just had to steal and everything was solved."
But after a certain point, we see the Israelites worshiping other gods, we see them complaining and even confronting God. In all these moments, we see God disciplining them, but they did not change. At all times we see God forgiving. The limit for God was when they did not want to enter the promised land, but stayed complaining in their tents.Things got so bad that the people wanted to stone Caleb and Joshua (Numbers 14.6-10)
There are people who God deals with. God disciplines them over the years, but they don't want to change. They prefer to continue with their bad habits and behaviors, thinking that somehow this will benefit them, but they don't realize that this actually harms them. In the end, this prevents them from achieving what God has for them. People who do not want to change their bad habits also do not achieve what God has for them, nor heaven.
That's what I wanted to share.
Thank you all for your attention!