Leaving this season.

Leaving a season.

We are at a place in our lives where we are experiencing a change again. To some people it is a time of great frustration and to others it is a time of joy and blessings. For some it is a relief to be able to leave the place because they want to get away from the past.  For others it is hard because they have so many memories about the past. Where do you fit in all of this?

Israel left Egypt and they were rejoicing to be free from slavery. Yet when difficulty arose they were quick to want to go back to Egypt and slavery. They expected to be in the promised land and when they ended up in the wilderness they forgot about the promise. It is important for us to see that when we move on to the next season we will find difficulty and opposition to that season. The difficulty does not change our destiny but instead it confirms our destiny. Remember that there were no giants in Egypt or in the wilderness. I believe the reason we run into these difficulties is because we have to get to a place of determination. Israel lacked the determination to push through and most of the people that left Egypt died in the wilderness. We have one of two choices when we are faced with opposition. First is the easy one and that is to just give up. Just quit and you can stop the opposition. The problem is though that you will not inherit your promise. The second choice is to go back and look at the promise and the power it carries and then to decide that the promise is bigger than your opposition.

Think about Jesus with me for a minute. He was the one that had more opposition than anybody else we might know. We know that He was given the opportunity to give up and quit. When He was tempted, the enemy tempted Him with the opportunity to lose focus and have it all over and done with. He wouldn’t have to die or suffer. The promise Jesus carried was the one thing that kept Him focused.

Heb. 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

His promise was to start and finish something. That something is you and me when He saw us as redeemed and saved and restored back to the image of God. That one thing kept Him and gave Him the power to endure the worst opposition and to see it through.

What you give birth to in the time of your wilderness is what will inherit the promise. The people that were born in the wilderness inherited the promise land. Only three other people that came out of Egypt inherited with them the Promised Land. One of them was dead and it was Joseph. Before he died he made them promise that they would take his bones with them. He took the promise that God gave to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and decided that he would still be in Egypt and that was not what God promised. I love it when people can take a promise and demand that they be made a part of it even if it means they are dead by the time the promise is fulfilled. The other two people were Caleb and Joshua. When they spied out the land they refused to look at how big the giants were. They kept on believing that what God had promised them was theirs. The bible says that they had a different spirit in them. The rest of the spies died without the inheritance because they chose to focus on what was opposing them. We need to take our eyes off the enemy and put them back onto the word of God. We needed the adversity in the wilderness to prepare us for the giants that are occupying our promise.

As you move from one season to the next in your life, make sure the promise of God is steadfast in your heart. It always cost a price to grow and increase and if it was easy everybody would be doing it. He calls you into the next season with only the words: “Trust Me.” Are you willing to follow and inherit what is yours?