Is it wise to start over?
When you think you just hit the bottom, seem like a failure, nothing works out anymore, all the unpleasant things you could say about you and there isn’t light ahead the path you follow. Worrying and anxious about the future you can’t help, wishing things would change and be better and asking yourself when is it going to come? are there good things still stored up for me to keep waiting? You are just sure that it could be an end for you or amidst confusion of knowing nothing either.
Maybe there is hope to new things, to leaving all things behind and just believing to fresh starts.
The idea of starting over again is frightening and scary because it can sometimes mean leave certain paths we have taken, sacrificed for and the time and efforts we have put into whatsoever we are sticking to. But the book of Job gives us a different perspective.
Job 8:7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
Now let’s explore the biblical evidence of new beginnings and why God used Fresh starts with his servants.
Genesis12;1 The Lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.
Now we see Abram leaving his past following the voice of God and we all know that he is a father of faith because he followed God when he hadn’t known about him completely not even from past teachings like we read the bible today.
Abram’s decision to move from the place he knew, people he loved and cared alongside the familiarity he was so used to a place he trusted to, gave him a new beginning. Despite the fact that God had promised him all sorts of good things, still Abraham could have decided to reject this call and decide to stick to his old ways.
Abraham got a new beginning out and away from the community he was familiar to but was it necessary for God to wait until he moved to a fresh start?
There is something about fresh starts that makes it easier to start rewiring one’s mindset into new perspectives, beliefs and the new reality lenses through which we view life, for the case of Abraham he went on to starting afresh this time not with gods of his fathers but with God almighty and he went on to have a new lifestyle and OfCourse as the founder of a new belief on Earth.
Leaving a place, circumstances, situationships or a community to get a fresh start is a move fueled by faith despite the fear of unknown and doubts that stirs within.
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JACOB’S NEW BEGINNING.
Just like his great grandfather Abraham, we are not informed if Jacob had ever left or lived a life outside his household.
Gen28;5 Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean.......
He moved from his household running away from his brother’s vengeance.
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Despite the fact that Jacob was running away from his brother’s fury and anger, it had given him a new beginning to the place he went to. Even though the new place was his uncle’s place still there is something more that came to Jacob’s life, Love.
There haven’t been anyone else in the bible who worked hard for love as Jacob did for Rachel, fourteen years of hard work to get someone he loved to be his wife.