Thursday, April 2
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PARTIAL OBEDIENCE
Abram did not go directly from the land of Ur into Canaan. He made a 15 year detour in a place called Haran. Haran was not a
bad place, but it was not the place God was calling him to remain. Haran is a symbol of compromise, of partial obedience. And
it is a place with which most of us are quite familiar.
How many of us have joined a church, gone through the motions of
repentence and commitment, and stopped short of God's destination for us? We're living in Haran-not Canaan-and we may
be satisfied, but God is not. We've exercised enough faith to make a start, but we are seriously lacking in follow-through. Maybe
you are in Haran right now. You've made a break from an ungodly relationship, moved out of your cultural comfort zone-
maybe even cleaned up your language or your lifestyle...but you are still in Haran. You've broken a few worldly habits, but you
are still sold out to the world's agenda.
I have a personal theory that those who leave Ur and stop in Haran are more
miserable than those who never left at all. How tragic to hear the call of God and obey it only partially! Compromise is the
saddest place in the world to live, because it yields neither the fleeting pleasures of sin, nor the full-weighted blessing of
complete obedience.
Memory Verse
I KINGS 18:21
How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow ...
Read Through The Bible
1 Samuel 10-11; Psalm 4