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Food for thought-2014-8
“Become Or Die”
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(Genesis 21:20 NASB)
oo many times, we as people of God, do not see ourselves any further than our environments or rearing has taken us. Our thoughts and behaviors demonstrate what we are most connected with or to. Rather it’s our parents, teachers, siblings, and or friends. God has placed something within each of us. He has in us the “ABILITY to do. Something, although we can’t do everything!” When He breathed into the nostrils of man and he “BECAME” a living soul, He also breathed some of Himself into us. There’s a story in the Bible that talks about the life of a young boy who was born from the loins of Abraham by the name of Ishmael. Ishmael was the son of Hagar and Abraham, his maidservant. But after Ishmael turned thirteen he and his mother, Hagar were put out the camp and thrown into the wilderness to die. But God blessed Ishmael still, simply because he was from the seed of Abraham. After being in the wilderness for a period of time the Bible says Ishmael “BECAME” a skillful archer. He had to develop skills to survive the wilderness. When you are in your wilderness place don’t give up or throw in the towel; allow the God who created you develop you, so that you can become skillful in all that He would have you do!
My question to you is what are you becoming in spite of your circumstances and situations? As I previously stated, Ishmael, by the time he was 13 years of age, was put out of a place he had always
known. He was accustomed to having servants, eating the best of food, and dressed in fine apparel, but because of a choice Sarah and Abraham made, which brought him into this unfamiliar place, their choice caused he and his mother to be displaced from their home and thrown into the wilderness. For Ishmael, the wilderness was a place where he would either “BECOME or die”. My prayer for each of us is that we continue to search our hearts daily and consult with The Lord about the gift He placed within all believers, so that we can “BECOME” what He has created us to be in order that we can be a blessing to others as well as to ourselves… Elizabeth Jackson, Publisher