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Hope In A Strange Land
Contributed by Charles Forshee on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Many times in life we feel out of place. We are in a strange land. Our tendancy is to set down and cry, but if we will instead turn to Zion and pray and do what we can do, God will help us to thrive EVEN In a Strange Land. We’re not Beyond His Reach if we
but if we would just STOP....THINK....and Weigh our actions....
much of the Junk in our lives would Go Away......
You need to know that ....God doesn’t just Want you to have to be Delivered all the time....
He wants you to LIVE in the HIGH PLACES......
He wants you Living Healthy, Prosperous, Successful lives....
with....Long Life and Blessings and honor OVERTAKING you at every turn.....
and if we would just PAY ATTENTION to how we get into most of the Messes in our lives....and
...CHANGE WHAT WE ARE DOING......
Much of our Confusion and Sorrow could be Avoided.....
Not ALL of it....some things really are not your fault...but MUCH of it....
In Jeremiah 2:13 there are 2 things God said that PRECEDE our going into captivity and Confusion.....
Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
(we think there are 100’s of ways we get messed up...but God shows us right here that these 2 are USUALLY at the root)
1st...He said "they have forsaken ME the fountain of living waters.
That simply means...they REJECTED God....
All of our trouble begins with us turning away from God...by our own CHOICE....
We don’t choose the TROUBLE but we choose something over God’s Will and it always leads to trouble....
And you can’t commit the 1st evil without committing the 2nd.
....Going to broken cisterns that can hold no water.....
If God is the Source of ALL THAT’S GOOD....
and James 1:17 says that He is.....
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Then when we turn away....Failure and Trouble is Inevitable because that’s all that’s left.....
One day a bunch of the folks following Jesus left because they didn’t like what He said.....
.... Jesus asked His disciple IF they too would go away....
Peter made another Landmark Statement of truth when he said.....
"Where shall we go...ONLY YOU have the words of eternal life....."
That’s the choice plane and simple....
Where ever else you go is FUTILE and USELESS.....
because Only He is the source of life....
If you’re in a Strange Land today.......
If you’re not where you want to be...but you Just Don’t quite know HOW to get there from where you are.....
Let me Invite you to do what these captives we’ve read about today did....
They CALLED on the LORD.....
and the Bible says "He heard them and He Delivered them"....Over and Over and Over again......
And He is still Delivering those who CALL on Him today....
He is the Source of LIFE in all it’s Glory....in all it’s FULLNESS.....
And He doesn’t just want you SURVIVING....He wants You THRIVING......
