Get Behind Me!

Get behind me satan, because you're not thinking about God's concerns, but man's.Mark 8:33

Twice yesterday I spoke to women about letting go. The first called because of a family blow-up about what they deemed to be correct and how they wanted to assist a sick family member but her husband was in the way. Was he? I reminded my friend that first, her sister was married to her husband and had chosen to leave her family and cleave to her husband. Therefore the rest of the family must respect the decisions of the husband. Secondly, God's grace had to be ministered by my friend, she could not be drawn into the emotion of the family, she had to seek God and give His grace because it would bring life.

The second woman is leaving the area and having to trust the Lord for all her finances. Things were not going as planned or were they? At times we insist on how things must go and will wear ourselves out to make a thing happen when there is no grace for that thing to happen in the first place.

Peter, and I dare say, many of, if not all of, the disciples had a mindset on how this Messiah things should unfold. Jesus' talking about His death did not fit with the picture. Yet the cross was why He came. It took quite a while to accept this truth. Some were devastated by the event, yet the cross had to happen so that life could come and relationship with the Father could be re-established.

I try to look at rejection much the same. I am rejected when I try to be where I don't belong. I allow God to lead me, remember the flipper thing? (Old arcade game where you use little flippers to direct the silver balls around the course.) My job is to make sure I am not rejecting myself and that the rejection is not inside me.

If God is directing then we must let Him be God in our lives and lead us to His purposes and plans. Amen!