Abraham: Divine Call of

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …

But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

…and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.