You Are Next by Samuel Rodriguez

Author:Samuel Rodriguez [Rodriguez, Samuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2018-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

MOVING UP THE MOUNTAIN

When I visited Israel, I heard about a centuries-old salt formation near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom. While no one knows if this natural edifice started out as Lot’s wife, it certainly serves as a reminder of her fate. I find it incredibly sad to know that instead of a shrine commemorating her obedience and faithfulness, only a dry, dusty rock formation of sodium chloride remains. Instead of moving up the mountain, Lot’s wife became a monument to lost momentum.

Consider how differently her story might have ended. For example, we see a similar kind of stubborn resistance to God’s leading in the case of Jonah. Instructed by God to go to the city of Nineveh and warn its residents of their imminent destruction unless they repented, Jonah ran away. He tried to go the opposite direction and escape the place where God needed him to serve—and consequently ended up in the belly of a fish! But Jonah eventually repented and allowed God to use him to go to Nineveh and do what God needed him to do. Jonah surrendered his shackles to the past in order to fulfill the purpose for which God made him.

Similarly, we see the way many of those included in the faith hall of fame in Hebrews chapter 11 made the same choice to leave their past behind. Instead of looking back in destruction, they chose to walk by faith. Scripture says, “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see” (Heb. 11:1, NLT). And the pioneers of faith included here moved beyond the paralysis of their past to procure the promise of God’s power. Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and on and on—each individual chose to move forward instead of backward.

If you want to experience the fullness of God’s healing in the midst of those paralyzed areas of your life, you must follow the Lord. You must heed His voice and obey His commands. You must leave the place you used to live behind you. You must be willing to travel light and follow the sound of God’s voice.

And leaving your old life for the place God wants to take you involves so much more than geography. While He very well might want you to move across town, out of state, or to the other side of the world, God often wants to see movement in your heart. He wants you to stop carrying around baggage from the past that serves no purpose in your present and only slows you down in reaching your future.

Can you relate? How much baggage do you carry with you from the past on a daily basis? Maybe you have accumulated it from the arguments, conflicts, and grudges in your marriage, from the painful disappointments you have experienced when your spouse has let you down. But what if you could forgive your spouse the way God forgives you? What if you let go of your

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