Daily devotion – Whose Nahor?
Hebrews 11:8 – 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Many people today are trying to make a name for themselves in this world. They utilise Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, Twitter and any other form of media self-promotion.
It’s a dangerous field and passion to have to be famous in this world, especially for a believer!
In our journey through the book of Genesis we have arrived at the place of God calling Abram and Sarai and their arriving in the Promised Land that God called them – Canaan.
On arriving, Abram builds an altar and pitches his tent. Telling us that he was a worshipper and a pilgrim always, even in the land of promise.
Abram passed through Canaan, but Canaan was never exactly the same after he had passed through.
Can this be said of you today? What will be your life’s history after you have left this world?
A very true saying states, “Only one life; ‘twill soon be past; only what’s done for Christ will last.”
Back in Ur of the Chaldees, Abram had a brother whose name was Nahor – Gen 11:26-29. Over the course of his life he built a city and named it after himself – Gen 24:10.
If you asked anyone living in the land of the Chaldeans about these precocious sons of Terah, everyone would have been able to tell you about Nahor. He would have had his picture in the paper. His name would be in all the social media outlets.
“Oh, yes, Nahor! He’s a success, he built a great city, he’ll be remembered forever. Perhaps even have a statue made of him for posterities sake. We know Nahor.”
But Abram? “Oh we heard he just went off somewhere to Canaan, I think. No, he never amounted to anything.”
This is the way the world views it: Nahor a success, Abram a failure. But with God it is the other way around; and today Nahor is virtually forgotten (he would be entirely forgotten were he not related to Abram), while Abram is known and revered by millions around the world.
Do not seek fame nor build for this world, as did Nahor. Be an Abram, and leave a mark on eternity!