Start Doesn’t Determine Finish Part 2 of 2

Where we were is only a start. We determine where we go and how we live. We can either allow our past to stunt our spiritual growth and progress in God, or we can overcome evil with good by accepting God’s love and deliverance.

Rahab is an example of one not allowing their start to determine their finish. She was a harlot, and a pagan. But when Joshua sent spies into Jericho, she hid them and rejected her pagan ways declaring that the Lord is God (Joshua 2:11).  Because of this, her finish was that her family was spared when the Israelites took the city. She started as a pagan harlot but didn’t finsh that way. She finished with deliverance.

An example of the opposite can be seen in the children of Israel’s journey to the promised land. God had delivered them from slavery. Yet, they mentally remained in bondage when they said things like “Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exoduse 14:11-12). They were making excuses for their behavior by referring to what they had said in Egypt.

My sister, God loves us and wants to deliver us from our pasts. But it’s up to us to  accept that love and deliverance. By living in captivity, we’re not honoring the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus. He was sent to set captives free then and now. So, let’s walk in that deliverance by forgetting the things that are behind and  press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13,14).

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