B.C. Tigris . . . Euphrates . . . God s call was pointed. It was radical.
Obedience is always costly.
It is never easy. Abram is ordered to turn his back on what had become familiar and friendly, to go out to the unwelcome and the unknown. He is to head for a land that God will show him, a promised land. He had been doing so well in Haran. His flocks and herds had excellent pasture.