Biblical Principles and Practices:
Leave First
Sometimes God directs you to leave a comfortable situation, with no alternative in place. It's part of the way He works with His people.
Last month I terminated my relationship with an organization with which I had been associated for the past six years. There was no rancor, nor an incident which prompted my actions. We had just gone in different directions, and I didn’t feel that the relationship was of any value to me going forward. Looking back on it, I can see God’s hand in influencing my decision.
Then, a strange series of events occurred. In every sphere of my business, I experienced a positive, unexpected event. Multiple events, multiple business efforts, over a three-week period immediately following my separation. I had a strong sense that these blessings were, in some spiritual sense, being hindered by my involvement with the organization. When I left, it opened the sluices of the spiritual dam, and the blessings which had been
backed up, poured through.
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As I reflected on this, I realized that this was not the first time in my life I had the same experience. I had to leave my position as a divisional manager, for example, before I could catch sight of the business which has occupied me for the past 25 years. Within that business, I had to leave a broad market focus before I could narrow in on the niche which has provided 90 percent of the
revenues to that business.
In a more personal place, I had to leave the institutional church system before I could experience the blessings of a new perspective and closer relationship with God.
Over and over again, in big ways and small, I have seen that I had to leave a situation before I would be in a position to receive the blessings that were being hindered by that association. It was rarely a case of leaving one situation so that I could occupy a greater one. I left because it was time to go, and, in most cases, there was no vision of what’s next. Inevitably, though,
“what’s next,” has always been a situation that was more challenging, more fulfilling, and that required me to grow in ways that I would not have otherwise – to create new skills, meet new people, take on new attitudes.
But, I rarely planned for that. When I left the status quo, it made space in my life or my business that would soon be occupied by something bigger and better. My motivation for leaving was rarely to find something better -- rather it was to eliminate a comfortable status quo. The bigger and better came later and would never have happened if I had stayed with the previous
situation.
Leaving is almost always a difficult choice. In this last occurrence, I wrestled with the decision for at least a month before finally acting on it. The status quo is tremendously attractive, enticing us with familiarity, existing relationships, and comfortable places. We can create lots of reasons to stay...[Click Here To Read The Entire Article Online]
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