Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Genesis 10-11

Highlight Verse:

“One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭11‬:‭31‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Before my senior year of college, I had a career change opportunity or I was going to have to take out student loans for that last year that equaled what I had borrowed for the previous three years.

I chose to settle for the job I was offered rather than complete my teaching degree.

I’ve always wondered what my life would have been like if I had completed my degree and gone into teaching.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had a good life and a good career as a technician. But I always wondered.

I have had many tough choices to make since then. When I made the choice that was closer to the center of His will in my life, God has always blessed me for that choice, though it was usually the harder one.

Did Terah opt for the safe choice? Maybe.

God might have blessed him and his descendants far more quickly had they gone straight to Canaan. Or not. We’ll never know.

I just know that I don’t want to settle for second best when it comes to God’s will.

How do you decide when the choices are tough?
Where do you turn to for advice?