1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
After Abram's father died God called him out of Harran. God basically tells him to load up and leave with Sarai, his nephew Lot and all his posessions. This journey may have been a bit saddening at first. No matter the religious differences Abram was leaving the majority of his family in a pagan land. The traveled by way of the Jabbok River. Then Abram, Sarai and Lot would cross the Jordan where the two rivers met and followed the Wadi Farah into the Central Highlands. Abraham would stop near Shechem at "the great tree of Moreh".
Remember when you first recieved your drivers license? You had that excitement of making that first travel without your parents. This is the vision I have with Abram here. He is in charge of this travel but unlike a teenage trip to town this is a move through harsh and dangerous lands. This journey would definately be an exhausting one. This is a good place to rest.
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