I hear those who say, "Thank God 2010 has ended!” For them the NEW YEAR just signals some sort of escape from things that plagued them.
Throughout our whole lives we are constantly entering something, whether it is a new phase of our lives or a new job, or a new situation.
Have you ever thought about HOW you exit one thing will determine how you will enter the next thing? If you leave one to enter the next with unforgiveness, bitterness or unresolved anger and hurt...you will sow seeds of the same in the new area of your life and contaminate it also.
I once had a job I chose to leave because it was causing me a lot of bitterness and resentment over how I felt they treated me. I left with all of that bitterness and resentment in tact because I thought that it would automatically leave when I escaped my old job to enter a new job. It did not. I carried it, and the pain, with me until I made a decision to let go. I was also only thinking of my new job as a means of escape.
God’s escape pattern is not about taking you FROM something but taking you TO something. Take the children of Israel; they were led out of bondage by Moses to take them into the promise land. Abraham also left Ur of Chaldees to enter a land and relationship with God’s promise and covenant. God is always looking to the finished product.
Deliverance is always based on taking you OUT of something and bringing you INTO something new.
This year let it be one where we ask God to take us out of our own destructive patterns and lead us into new areas of PEACE and HOPE. Let us resolve to work on those things that would hold us back from being all God wants us to be. Choose to look at this year as a year of HOPE.
Happy New Year,
Gracie
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