How Do You Walk Away

[Professor]

How many people find that it is hard to walk away from the past?
Relationships, jobs, friends, family, church, etc. There are times in life when walking away is the only option.

That unequally yoked relationship. You are moving in one direction and
they are moving in another. You want one thing out of life and they want another. How do you turn and walk away?

What about the job that stopped challenging you years ago? Do you stay there because you are half way to retirement,
or do you walk away and go do something that brings your joy back? How do you walk away?

What about those friendships that seem to keep going up and down? One day you are friends and the next day you are not.
Do you stay in that friendship when it causes more hurt than happiness? Is this one of those who will be removed?

How do you walk away?

What about the family member that continues to borrow all that you have? Do you continue to lend them the
money/car/time,
or do you step back and allow God to be God? How do you walk away from what you've done for so long?

What about the church that you stopped growing in many years ago? Do you stay there because that's the only church that
you know,
or do you move on to a new church where you will have spiritual growth? How do you walk away?

Walking away is not easy, staying is sometimes worse. When a situation no longer has grace, is it better to stay or leave?
There are times when God is saying to walk away and there are times when He is saying to stay,
but unless you have a personal relationship, you have no idea what He is saying.

God will allow us to stay in things as long as we would like. It is up to us to listen when He says go.
We should not get mad when things continue to go in the wrong direction, when God has given us His direction.
I didn't come today to say walk away, I came to ask the question "how do you walk away?"

I too have asked this question many days and always heard the Lord say
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
That's the key, seek God for the answer.

There are times when He will have a delay in His response.
There are times when you will miss God's answer.
There are times when you will stay regardless of His answer to you,
but know that God is a God that always answers the prayers of the righteous.
He answers in His time, not ours. Just wait for Him.

So how do you walk away? Ask God to order your steps and the walk becomes that much easier.

[Honeykiss1974]

You walk away by stepping out on the faith that GOD has better blessings for you ahead. When God's grace and blessings have been lifted from a situation, you no longer want to stay there. IF you no longer feel the joy, enthusiams, or happiness that you once felt, then I believe that GOD's grace has been lifted and its time to move on. Grace opens doors for us. Grace makes the way easy. Its like this, have you ever had a situation just seemed to work itself out, things falling easily into place with little or no effort from you? Well, that's GRACE.

However (of course that was coming) if you no longer feel the joy, enthusiam, or happiness that you once felt because of something that you done (i.e. breaking one of the 10 commandments, etc.) then that has nothing to do with it. God is not going to use a sin or break one of his convents with us. For example, let's say a single woman falls in love (both physically and mentally) with a married man that she has been seeing. This single woman tells herself that this married man was sent to her by GOD and that they were meant to be. WHAT!! GOD is not going to "break up" a marriage (one of his convents AND commandments) in order to send her a man by having him to committ adultery. Now if the man was already divorced when he met her, then that's a different story

Anyway, everything really boils down to prayer. In the book of James, he tells us the " if you want to know something, just ask! GOD delights in us asking Him. But when we ask, we must do so with a faithful and expectant heart that he will answer us, because a heart full of doubt and unsureness will twist and turn with every bump in the road".

Ok, let me shut up because I've started preaching now.

[delph998]

I definitely agree with Honeykiss. Faith is definitely a key component when dealing with walking away from negative situations in your life. Walking away can be very difficult, but it takes us to make one step and God will do the rest. Prayer is also very important. I've walked away from many situations and thought that they would turn out worse, but they turned out for the best EVERY TIME.