Is This a Dead End Street?

Genesis 11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

We are still caught up in these seemingly endless genealogies after the flood, when we come to what seems like dead ends: Sarai was barren and Terah died. Many of us know at least part of the rest of the story, but for Abram and Sarai it must have seemed hopeless.  At this time of year, you might already be feeling that way, but God has a different perspective and plan. Your "new year's resolutions may have already tanked or what you had hoped to see change has gotten worse. Do not lose heart. It's not a dead end.