“Why could we not drive it out?” (Matthew 17:19)
Just when we became too comfortable, the Lord allowed life challenges or discomforts to bring us back to reality, the reality that, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” You see, we may have often found ourselves in a rut when we continued to attempt to address spiritual matters with carnal solutions. We found that we were getting nowhere and the results were on repeat. Yet, we serve a merciful God. He will not allow us to stay in a rut. “The Lord will not have us always be in a rut. Therefore, he does what men do sometimes when they divert traffic by putting detours up to turn travelers off from one side of the road to another. In that way, the epileptic child was put right in the disciples' road, so that they should not go on sleepily doing the same work without heart and without thought. This strange case wakes them up; they have something to deal with now that is very different from what they were doing before. The Lord has come and disrupted the routine, the mundane, the rut. The child’s condition wakes them up; similar to how the Lord permits us sometimes to have trouble in the church, or a shock in the family, that we may wake right up. He will not allow us to go on mechanically any further, not another hour or day with no spiritual life in us.” Charles Spurgeon Perhaps, presently the Lord has disrupted our routine, taken us off our familiar path, upset the apple cart, so to speak, to get our attention. Now that we have seen and heard from God, we can drive it out and move forward! GiGi❤️
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