It's our human nature to have the want, need and desire to be around others but what happens when those people choose to walk out of your lives and abandon you? It's especially hard when those people are family. Yet, the reason some people have turned against you and walked away from you without reason, has nothing to do with you. It is because God has removed them from your life because they cannot go where he is taking you. They will only hinder you in the next realm because they have already served their purpose in your life. Let them go, and keep moving as greater is coming!! We are always in a place of transitioning. Our lives are different then they were six months ago. So, change is inevitable and we must learn to embrace life. It teaches growth and maturity, in order to structure our lives as it moves us toward balance, stability and acceptance.
Hebrews 13:5
"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
Its says "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." God is always there for you no matter what the circumstance. He isn't like man, and treats us better than we treat him.
Forsake means: Abandon, renounce or give up. God never gives up on us, so let's not give up on him. We are all Christians under construction. It's a process and God will finish His work in each one of us. The good news is you keep getting tested until you pass. You can win, if you won't quit!
When the Israelites were walking through the desert, they were murmuring and complaining saying, "God has left us, he abandoned us, he left us to die in the wilderness."
Exodus 14:11-16
"And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord , which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."
Look at the Miracles God did for them. "But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea."
He parted the Red Sea. God hadn't forgotten them, he didn't abandon them, he didn't leave them, he was there with them in the storm. And friend, no matter where life has taken you. God is there with you in your storm. God can turn mistakes, and bad choices around for his glory. It is never to late to call upon him because he will deliver you. It never comes in our time or our way but put your trust in Him to set the crooked path straight because he will do a New Thing inside your life.
Isaiah 45:5-6
"I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else."
God is Love and his Love never fails. People may give up on you and fail. But know assuredly, that God will never leave us nor forsake us. He sticketh closer than a brother.
I want to leave you with a poem that I hold dear to my heart. It's entitled: "Footprints in the Sand." It illustrates God's love for us because during our toughest moments in life that is when he carried us through.
One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, One belonging to me and one to my Lord. After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at many times along the path of my life, especially at the very lowest and saddest times, there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it. "Lord, you said once I decided to follow you, You'd walk with me all the way. I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me." He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, Never, ever, during your trials and testing's. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you."
God Bless,
Rev. William Schenkel
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