Let Go! You Will Come Out And To A Wealthy Place

 

I seem to talk about life ever so often these days; does it have anything to do with age or just experiences one has been through? I think it’s a little of both. Hmmm! It’s all about life again today. Have you observed that at some point we generally want to believe we’ve been through so much there is nothing new to experience? Maybe this is true for some but some of us have found that we always have something new to learn when we are faced with a new experience; for every new experience comes with its own lessons. Life could be described as a school with many different schools or experiences from one level to the next; or maybe a journey in the course of which we are compelled to have different experiences which give us opportunities to learn new things though the decision whether or not to learn is always ours. Those who don’t learn are those who refuse to yield so that they remain in the process going through the same experiences over and over but never learning. Sometimes, though the experiences may seem different, they are not; especially where the lessons they teach remain the same. God allows us through life’s experiences making them our refining schools which we ought to go through successfully that we may be accomplished and skilled in the art of applying of God’s mind to real life situations successfully. Each school ought to teach us something different changing different aspects our persons. To circumvent the experience is to go round the school and end up shallow; learning no new thing and having no successes or testimonies and the end of which is sorrow. These are the ones that are ever learning but never gaining life transforming understanding like the women Paul talks about in one of his letters to Timothy.

2 Timothy 3: 7 “Such women are forever learning but never able to come to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

I am convinced that to each school God has allotted a certain period of time so that if one has to keep repeating a particular school and/or experience, a day may come when the option of repeating will no longer exist so that the individual remains stunted or immature in many ways. The bible speaks of “an acceptable time” and doing things “while it is yet day” and several other such sentences that tell that with God, there is often a time frame allotted for anything that needs to be done. Also, I have found that one of the most common reasons for failing is “self”. It is impossible to go through successfully, if self is exalted. The primary aim of each school is to ultimately help us “kill our flesh” and if one’s self is the most important thing to them then there is no way such persons will let go of their flesh enough for the experience to facilitate the death thereof. Indeed many such persons are left no option but to circumvent the experience. Such are believers who have elected rather to dismiss any or all forms of discomfort and God does not compel anyone to go through. Though He allows us face these experiences, He leaves us with options and watches to see if we would go through or go round but no one can fulfill their destiny going round. So let us not despise these life’s experiences painful as they may sometimes be.

1 Peter 2: 1 - 3 “So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.”

James 1: 12 “God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life

With every school passed, one’s faith increases so that from school to school, we grow from faith to faith. The more the flesh dies, the more control God has of our lives and the more of His goodness He is able to deposit in our lives. It is only normal to give more to those that have succeeded having been tried and tested. Such persons earn trust. Our God is no different; though He desires friendship with and loves us dearly, He entrust some with more. God would not give the same responsibility to one who has consistently failed or circumvented the schools as He would one who has successfully gone through everyone they had to go through. It is foolishness to assume that there is nothing to be said for every level of experience that one has gone through successfully. Mere knowledge and tested knowledge would respond differently when faced with the same circumstance. It is presumptuous to think they are equal. It is best to learn calmly instead of assuming we know all that those who have gone ahead of us know. Little knowledge when tested successfully, produces immense maturity. Let us have respect unto maturity because whatever we despise will not come to us.

Job 23: 10b “And when he tests me, I will come out as pure gold.”

1 Peter 1: 7 “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold-though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is reveled to the whole world.”

So do not fear when you go through each of these experiences as you may be even now. God is there with you through it all. He is God in valleys as He is on mountain tops. As long as He remains God, He is always in control except we yield our lives to another. He allowed life throw the experience at you to bring you to a good place. Let your heart be stayed on Him. Fear is a tool of the enemy to make us circumvent or keep aborting the process. That you may die in the experience is a thought from satan which needs to be cast out of your mind because you will come through. Nothing but your flesh shall die in the process which was God’s original intention. Fear not! You are coming to a wealthy place. For every experience is but a stepping stone.