Genesis 11:27-15:21

There seems to be so much tied into the names of people and of places in the scriptures. For example, Abram had a brother named Haran who died while Abram's family was still in "Ur of the Chaldeans." (Genesis 11:28) Then Abram's family, headed by his father, Terah, set out to resettle in Canaan, but when they came to a place named Haran, the family settled there. (Genesis 11:31)

I wonder: Who named the place Haran, someone in Abram's family or someone else? If it was someone in Abram's family, then what prompted the name-giver to name the place after the deceased person, Haran? Was there something about the place, Haran, that reminded that family of the person, Haran? And if so, then what?

My heart races as I read Genesis 15:6, "Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness."  Many centuries later, St. Paul the Apostle recalls this passage of scripture, as he writes to the Christians at Rome concerning humanity's relationship with God--our fully-reconciled relationship, based upon faith in Jesus Christ. (Romans 4)

And in these chapters of the Bible's book of Genesis, God covenants with Abram, promising descendants to Abram and land to Abram's descendants--blessed people in a promised place!

Oh, how I have been blessed by the people who God has inserted in my life's story! How I am blessed by the promises that God has delivered to my family and to me! Praise to God's name forever!