"Get out of your country, from your kindred and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Genesis 12:1-3)
God called Abram out of the land of Ur because He wanted a people for His name -- a people who express His character on this earth, a people who expose His glory on the earth, a people who are different from the rest of the human beings in the world. God wanted the nations to look at this people and see what people are like when they know the Lord God.
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