Ur

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wanted to blog about Land of Ur of the Chaldees

Was reading the Amplified Bible (go get yourself one) read Gen, the footnote to the chapter. it says:

"Abram's hometown was Ur of the Chaldees. As the result of extensive archaeological excavations there by C. Leonard Woolley n 1922-34, a great deal is know about Abram's background.
Space will not permit more than a glimpse at excavated Ur, but a few items will show the high state of civilization. The entire house of the average middle-class person had from ten to twenty rooms and measured forty to fifty-two feet; the lower floor was for servants, the upper floor for the family, with five rooms for their use; additionally, there was a great chamber and a lavatory reserved for visitors and a private chapel.
A school was found and what the students studies was shown by the clay tablets discovered there. In the days of Abram the pupils had reading, writing, and arithmetic as today. They learned the multiplication and division tables and even worked at square and cube root.
A bill lading of about 2040 B.C (about the era in which Abram is believed to have lived) showed that the commerce of that time was far-reaching. Even the name "Abraham" has been found on the excavated clay tablets (J.P. Free, Archaeology and Bible History). "

Whats about it that really caught me was hey, the Land of Ur is like the modern day Singapore, or even wealthier than Singapore.
Look at the standard of the house of a Average, middle class person... look at the education system.

A look at Wikipedia and it will tell you, that same land later became part of Babylon. You know the story, how rich prosperous Babylon was.

Turn it around and look at it from Abram's point of view. How would you react if you lived in a place like Ur back than, then your father took you out to another land called Canaan and the father died on his way in Haran? Then comes a call from heaven asking you to move on and go into Canaan. A land that lived the people who were cursed by their forefathers. (rem Noah and the son who went around telling people of his father's nakeness? His descendent lived in that land)
Would you have moved?

No doubt about it that God came to Abram in a glorious way, and everything.
But like it is, you've experience it, but would you have carried it on? To how far will you go? How much are you willing to resist the temptations around you?

Thats why they say "Many are called, but few are chosen"
I believe that Abraham's faithfulness was appointed to him when he was in the Father's hand.
That seed being in the heart allowed and got him through the times.
"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he went."

Live life as though you have been chosen. Because you wont know till the day you stand before His throne.

Through good times and bad times, His grace is sufficient.

Be Bless~
Love,
Amanda