Proclamation:
“But if you do not drive out the
inhabitants ... those you allow to remain will become … thorns in your
sides. They will give you trouble … And
then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.” Numbers 33:55-56 (NIV)
Explanation:
These are the words of The Lord
God which were spoken to and recorded by Moses.
God told Moses to speak to the Israelites as they were about to the
Jordan and enter to promise land. They
were to drive out of the land all of the idol worshiping inhabitants, and destroy
all of their carved images and their idols.
God said that if they didn’t do this, then those that remained would
bring them trouble. And then God said
that He would treat them like He was going to treat their enemies.
Application:
Some people should only be
in our life for a season. They serve a
purpose, usually to teach us a lesson.
However, they were not meant to stay in our lives. We were not supposed to hold on to them and
keep them in our lives. If our “friends”
are not believers in Christ, then what do they believe and who is influencing
whom? It is time to let those people go.
It's not good to hang on to people after
God has said for us to move away from them. Those that we let remain in our lives will
cause us nothing but trouble. If they
are remnants of our life before we accepted Christ then they are a temptation
to return to our previous sinful habits.
We changed when we became believers and we are now new creatures. (2
Corinthians 5:17) All of the people that
we used to hang out with will not want to come with us on our new walk. Only birds of the same feather will flock
together. Only people who are in
agreement will walk the same walk together. (Amos 3:3) We can’t walk with The Lord and continue to
hold hands with the devil. Not everybody
that was in our “old” life should be with us in our “new” life. We need to let go of any “friend” who is
pulling us away from God. We do not want
to incur the wrath of God because we wanted to keep walking with our evil doing
non-believing friends.
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