Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 12:1

"Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father`s house, unto the land that I will show thee:" — Genesis 12:1 (ASV)

It was God's intention to keep his truth and his pure worship alive in the world by committing it to the charge of one man, and the nation that should spring from him. In the infinite sovereignty of his grace, he chose Abraham—passing by all the rest of mankind—and elected him to be the depository of the heavenly light, that through him it might be preserved in the world until the days when it should be more widely scattered.

It seemed essential to this end that Abraham should come right out from his fellow-countrymen, and be separate to Jehovah, so the Lord said to him, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee."