iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 6
The Call
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 6: "The Call" --- THE VOICE IN UR The city of Ur was old when Abram was young. In the land between the rivers—the Tigris and Euphrates—civilization had flourished for millennia. Ur was a center of culture, commerce, and religion. Its ziggurat rose against the sky like a man-made mountain, dedicated to the moon god Nanna. Its streets bustled with merchants and craftsmen, priests and scholars. Abram grew up in this world of many gods. His father Terah may have been an idol maker—tradition suggests the family traded in religious objects. Everywhere Abram looked, there were gods: gods of the moon and sun, gods of fertility and war, gods carved from wood and stone and precious metals. The people of Ur worshipped them all, hoping to appease the unseen forces that controlled their fates. But something stirred in Abram's heart. Something that found no satisfaction in the carved images, no comfort in the rituals, no truth in the religious systems of his culture. And then, one day, a Voice spoke. "Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.'" --- THE COMMAND Three things the Voice demanded he leave: His country. Ur was home. Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization,...