Idols, letting go and choices - Genisis 13

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Before we can respond to God's promise and calling in our lives, there has to be times of seperation, of dealing with idols: things that we hold dear, things that are important to us, things that we love, but things that will take our eyes off the Lord.

Ray Macauley said, if you have a calling in your life, you're ruined for everything else.

It's hard to let go, especially the things we're letting go define part of who we are on earth. But the promise is:"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or fathers or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life."(Matt19:29)

There's this lyrics of a song that I so love: "The things that You take away, You'll replace them with Yourself."

It makes a whole world of differences in making choises when we add eternity into our perspectives. The things that we see with flesh eyes and the things we can see with eternity point of view can be so dramatically different. Lot chose Sodom and Gomorah, the land that was green and florishing in the eyes for the moment. But Abram chose the mountains, the land that's barren for the eyes, and even though throughout his whole lifetime he could only see a tiny glimpse of the result of his choices, what a blessed man he is now in heaven!