"Go back the same way you came."
Elijah was God's prophet who had found himself in compromising positions and had wandered from God's directed path. He found himself afraid and hiding from the call God had placed on His life.
Here we see God directing Elijah to retrace his steps back to the place
he had strayed from God's mission... from there he could move forward.
THEY could move forward together.
Sometimes God has to take us BACK, so that we can move forward.
Sometimes God has to send us back.
Seem friends,
We want immediate substitution (from whatever we're facing)... He wants immediate submission.
We expect automatic conversion... He wants automatic compliance.
Sometimes God says, "Let's go back here, because I'm not done doing that work in you. I can't take you THERE... until we've finished the work HERE."
Let's let Him finish the work in us. If that means remaining here, or going back... you can trust that it's going to be worth it. Because, "God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." (Phil 1:6)
Sometimes God has to take us BACK, so that we can move forward.
Sometimes God has to send us back.
Seem friends,
We want immediate substitution (from whatever we're facing)... He wants immediate submission.
We expect automatic conversion... He wants automatic compliance.
Sometimes God says, "Let's go back here, because I'm not done doing that work in you. I can't take you THERE... until we've finished the work HERE."
Let's let Him finish the work in us. If that means remaining here, or going back... you can trust that it's going to be worth it. Because, "God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns." (Phil 1:6)
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