This Is Our Heritage

What do you do when you know you have to make a change, when you are forced to make decisions, yet you aren’t sure which way to go? What do you do when you begin to head down a new path and you encounter problems and challenges…unlike any that you have encountered before and unlike anything you expected? When do adverse conditions and unexpected problems spell out to you the fact that you should move on to something else?

Quite honestly…I don’t think we ever can allow circumstances and challenges to tell us what and when and where we should go. There may be times that adverse conditions can force us to do a survey of our heart and our motives and through that self-examination we find that we are in the wrong place at the wrong time…but it is not the adversity that calls the shots.

As you make changes and shift directions there will be challenges and you will encounter adversity. The problems may form…but they will not prosper. At least they shouldn’t if we recognize who and what we are.

Isaiah 54:15-17 – “If anyone attacks you, don't for a moment suppose that I sent them, And if any should attack, nothing will come of it. I create the blacksmith who fires up his forge and makes a weapon designed to kill. I also create the destroyer—but no weapon that can hurt you has ever been forged. Any accuser who takes you to court will be dismissed as a liar. This is what God's servants can expect. I'll see to it that everything works out for the best. God’s Decree."

Our heritage tells us that while there may be things created or plotted to come against us…they will not succeed. It will not happen. Unless we give up before the battle has even begun. You know how it is. I am sure you have all had times when you were so set on something that you wouldn’t let it go any other way. You dug in your heels and said “No Way! I am not giving up. This is how it is going to be.” And that was how it was. Then there have been the times that you waffled back and forth and you allowed your head to get spinning and your mind racing. And you totally lost control of the situation and you were defeated.

So many people go through life without consideration of their heritage once they enter into a relationship with the creator of the universe. They have the assurance that no attack will take root, that any destroyer that comes against them will be destroyed, that any accuser will be dismissed, and that everything will work out for their best.

That should give us confidence!

Today take that confidence with you as you go through your day. Each person you meet, every meeting you lead, every call that comes your way…recite this verse in your head and allow those words to be your guiding force.

And just to reinforce what we have been promised I will leave you with this scripture as well.

Psalm 2:8 – “Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.”

Have a blessed day,

RodZ

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