Word of life

You can't get where you already are

Submitted by: Ralph Hall

You can't get where you already are. Let me explain, some people spend a life time trying to fit into a family. Where they are already a family member, they feel like a spare part that doesn't fit. Therefore they are always just outside the family group. Some people all these people the black sheep of a family.

My name is Hall, so I could try a lifetime to become a Hall and never get there, because I was born a Hall and had no distance to become a Hall. It is my birth right, I an't where I already am.

There are also some people who spend most of their Christian life looking for the will of God for their life, wondering where they fit in. The will of God for a persons life may be summed up in two words, here they are the great secret (to serve) yes my friend it is true you were saved to serve God, so serve him well.

Micah 6:8: He hath showed thee o men what is good an what doth the Lord require of thee, but, to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thay God?

If a person does these things then surely he will walk in the will of God and not lose his way. So many people today have lost their way and are on nerve pills because they don't know where the are. There are so many troubled people in this world who have dropped out of life. There are alive but not living. So they try to fill the void with drug, alcohol. sex, or running with the wrong crowd. So many of our young people have lost their way. This society is running wild with people who have dropped out. When people lose their way or their vision. They no longer see where they are going. It's like the blind leading the blind, they will all fall in the ditch. God please help us, the ditches today are full of lost souls.

As Christians we must start pulling them out of the ditch and help them find their way back to the family of God. There is no ditch to deep or pit to dark that our God can't find them. If people will cry out to God he will find them.

David, cries out to God when he has a deep problem. Crying out to God in the time of trouble is better than any pill.

Psa 40:1: I waited, patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of, the miry clay, and set my foot upon a rock and established my going.

Praise God for a man like David, who always understood that he was a part of the family of God, and that God loved him. We like to think of David as the strong young man who killed goliath. Yes, David, was the giant killer as the story goes.

But David says, of himself. Psa.40:17; but I am poor and needy yet the Lord thinketh upon me, thou art my helper and my deliverer make no tarrying o my God.

David knew if he took his problems to God, God would help him because he was a member of the family of God. He made many mistakes in his lifetime, but always looked to God for the answer.

There are some people today who live in a box and some who don't even have a box to live in, because they have left their home and family. Some of these people haven't written or called home in years. Not understanding that they are still part of a family who loves them. The prodigal son returns St. Luke 15:24: For this my son was dead, and is alive again, he was lost and is found and they began to be merry.

There are so many lonely people who need to return home, and back to God. There is no problem you can't master if you have faith, because the master of faith lives in you.

If you are a part of a family don't try to fit in, because you are already there so mix in with them. The same is true with the family of God.

Eccl. 12:13: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man. If you read this messageand feel you have drifted outside the family then return to where you belong.

When I was a small lad of 14 I ran away from home. I was gone for three days, people were looking for me everywhere. I knew my father would beat me with a stick when I returned, but how wrong I was. Where he saw me coming through the yard he ran to me and hugged me, and said, I am so glad you are home.

So as I lay in my bed that night, and tried to count the millions of stars, I said, to myself, it is so good to be part of a family. Then I said, thank you God, for there is no place like home, and I am where I should be. For then I understand that you can't be where you already are? Thank you, God for allowing me to be where I am with you.