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The title of today’s episode: THE RIGHT PLACE

Many people struggle with finding their place in the world. People in their teens and twenties especially are trying to figure out who they were meant to be. But you do not have to be a teenager to struggle with the identity question. Who am I meant to be in this season of life.  Many things can change that will push us from one season to the next.

I talked to you yesterday about being in the right place or the secret place in God. When we find ourselves asking questions of God he will give us the answers to our new seasons of life.

I came across a Hebrew word in my studies. It is  Anavah (Ah-na-va) which means bring down. It is translated into the English word humble or humility. We often think of humility as having a modest view or low view of our own importance. We may approach God with this point of view. God’s ways are always higher than our own. We are lower than he is because he is God and we are his creation.

However, this word doesn’t mean humility in the same way we think about it today. When the bible was written the word anavah was used and its meaning was to take up the space God gave you. Being aware of and occupying the territory that God created for you. Today, we would be considered humble if we backed off and gave the spotlight to someone else.  However, there are times that God has given you that particular place to occupy. The hard part is knowing where your place is, God doesn’t want us to overestimate our territory. But he doesn’t want us to underestimate it either.

He wants us to walk confidently in the place he has put us; with conviction that we are where he wants us to be right now, for this season. But not to be overbearing like we have all the answers.

When we walk in humility, we are walking in the God given space, if we can do that, we will be an influence to those around us. Because we will be perfectly aligned with the will of God.

Think about it, have you ever had a moment that you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you were right where you needed to be; perfectly aligned with God. In that moment he used you to make a huge difference.  Like the time God rerouted my day to put me at the falls to keep a woman from committing suicide. What if I had missed that moment?

Evil people often overestimate their place in the world. In the book of Esther; look at Haman, he had been made second in command of the kingdom. One step below the king, yet he was angered because a lowly man named Mordecai would not bow to him. He was trying to overreach his place in the world. When we are evil like he was, our overreach is always our downfall. He wanted to kill God’s people. Not something that was in his original design from God. He ended up hanging on the gallows he built for Mordecai.

Mordecai however, walked in the place God had for him. He would not bow to Haman, because he said he only bowed to his God; Jehovah. Mordecai did what he knew God wanted from him, to stand strong on his faith. God blessed Mordecai for his faithfulness.

It is easy to walk in the flesh and allow the enemy to mess with our thinking. If we can learn to walk in humbleness before God, he will help us. Underestimating our abilities is not humbleness, it is false humility. God doesn’t want us to walk in that either.

The enemy is out to destroy our identity. He wants us to feel like we cannot step into the calling God has for us. He makes us feel like we could never fill the space God has for us to occupy. In truth, we cannot on our own, but allowing ourselves to be meek enough to let God lead, we can do anything he has called us to do.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

He knows what he is doing, he created each of us with a plan and a purpose. It is up to us to get in that secret place with him and let him tell us who we are and what he created us to do.

Isaiah 55:8-9  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Our Christian Walk is all about balance; not too much or too little. Like those who are legalistic they are on the one side too far. They make up rules to make sure to keep people in line. (They think too highly of themselves) Then you have those who have a nonchalant attitude that because God gives us grace that we can do whatever and it’s ok. (They think too little of their real place in God and in his blood) Somewhere in the middle is the Christian that wants to please God. They want to do HIS will. They don’t care about man’s legalisms, even though they are persecuted by the overly religious. They try to keep God’s commandments and do the right thing, even though there are those who are Christian’s in name only that try to sway them the other way. This little thing won’t matter. In the middle of it all is God and his plan for our lives the anavah.

Think about where God wants for you to be, ask him to point you that direction.  I pray that you will learn to be right where you need to be at all times. That is my prayer for me, that I am always occupying the right space, in Him and for Him.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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