Leaving for closure

Leaving for Closure



-Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.” 2Kings 8:1

This verse, and the entire passage (verses 1 through 6), remind me of today’s times. Although we have food here in America, we have a financial and moral famine. We tend to get caught up in worldly ways, and the hustle and bustle of life, enslaving ourselves into chasing after wealth and “stuff” to occupy our time and attention, you know, business as usual. And for a lot of us, business as usual doesn’t include much time for God. We need to build a space for God, not only in our schedules, but in our hearts. This is not a time for business as usual, this is a time for obedience. To be obedient requires patience, and patience requires effort. The scripture 2Kings 8:1-6, is about obedience, patience, and change.

See, the word arise means to change your position. That could be your job, where you live, where you worship, or what you do. To change your position means you have to learn how to say goodbye to some things. Saying goodbye is a hard thing to do, especially to the people and things that you love, but some places that God has taken you, or is taking you, you can’t carry everybody and everything with you.

The woman Elisha spoke to journeyed with her household to the land of the Philistines for seven years. She left everything she had. Her house, her land, her friends and family. It takes patience to live in a foreign land for 7 years, but her obedience and patience paid off. When she returned, the King declared that all that was hers be restored, her house her land, and the revenue that her land had provided from the day that she left, until the day of her return.

By being obedient and changing her position, she moved to a higher level. A lot of us are trying to move to higher levels, but we are going about it the wrong way. Be obedient my friends, change your position.

Let it marinate.

MD