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The ‘Gift Of Goodbye’
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‘... ORPAH KISSED HER MOTHER-IN-LAW GOODBYE, AND
RETURNED TO HER CHILDHOOD HOME’ RUTH 1:14..
Certain people will leave you. When they do, let them go! Don’t try to talk them into
staying. Your destiny is seldom tied to those who walk away! The Bible says, ‘They
went out from us, but they did not really belong to us...’ (1 John 2:19 NIV). When
people don’t belong in your life anymore, even a bucket of super glue won’t make
Lord, help me to
them stay!
identify the path
Orpah’s leaving didn’t make her a bad person; it just meant her part in the story
and direction I
was over. Recognise when somebody’s part in your story is over as well, otherwise
should take when
you’ll keep trying to raise the dead. David pleaded with God for his baby’s life. He
things around me
‘fasted...spent the nights lying on the ground...and he would not eat...’
seem to be going
(2 Samuel 12:16-17 NIV). But when the child died, he had to accept that there was
wrong. Father, I
nothing more he could do, so he ‘got up...washed...changed his clothes...and he
pray that I would ate’ (2 Samuel 12:20 NIV).
not hinder the Know when something’s over! If God means you to have it, He’ll give it to you. When
lives of the people you’ve tried to make it work and it hasn’t, accept His will in the matter. Never beg
around me. I pray anyone to stay with you against their will. Their leaving is no accident; the ‘gift of
that You bless me goodbye’ is a scriptural one. It means God’s got something better in store for you
Lord and let me (and possibly them too), so keep trusting Him until it comes to pass!
be a blessing to
others, in Jesus’
name.
“Stumbling” Into Blessings
‘... IT HAPPENED, THE FIELD WHERE SHE FOUND HERSELF
BELONGED TO BOAZ.’ RUTH 2:3.
Although Ruth started out for one destination, she stumbled into another. Her plan
was to pick leftover grain, but she happened to ‘light on a part of the fi eld’ (Ruth
‘I came across
2:3) belonging to Boaz, and it changed her life.
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When Boaz called her name, she came from the background to a place of blessing
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in the foreground. That’s how quickly it can happen! Ruth’s life had been spiralling
changed my life’
downward. Her husband had died. She’d left her old home, and wasn’t accepted in
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deliberately dropping handfuls of wheat in her path. She started picking up
undeserved blessings.
Did you know that God can leave you ‘a blessings trail’? After struggling so long
just to get by, He’ll begin to drop blessings into your path, and all you have to do is
keep following. Even though the odds might seem against you today, don’t let satan
push you back. You’ve been through too much to be intimidated by him. You’re
about to come into a blessing that’ll change your life. ‘... along unfamiliar paths I
will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them...’ (Isaiah 42:16 NIV).
God can let you ‘stumble’ into good things; to show up at the right place, at the
right time, and meet the right person with the right answer. He has a way of
‘tripping’ us into blessing.
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