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    Overcoming Our Past
    Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    "Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jephthah." Judges 11:29a

    We've all heard stories of individuals who have overcome extreme hardship during their childhood years. Children of alcoholics, orphans who never have parents, loss of parents to a fatal accident, childhood disease - all difficult circumstances to overcome. Jephthah was a man who overcame his obstacles and refused to allow his circumstances to prevent him from becoming great in God's sight. He was born to Gilead, a result of his father's adulterous encounter with a prostitute.

    Gilead's wife bore more sons, decide to reject Jephthah, and drove him away from their home saying, "You are not going to get any inheritance in our family because you are     a son of another woman." Imagine the rejection this young man felt as he was cast away from his own family.

    The experience taught Jephthah to become a hardened warrior. Today he probably would have been part of a street gang. As he got older, his reputation as a warrior became known to those in his country - so much so when the Ammonites made war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to Jephthah and asked him to be their commander. Jephthah had to fight off those feelings of rejection from previous years. "Didn't you hate me and drive me out from my father's house?" he responded. He overcame his hurt and pain, and responded to the call God had on his life.

    It is said that if we were to help the butterfly remove itself from the cocoon, the butterfly would not be strong enough to survive. It is the struggles that prepares the butterfly to become strong enough to fly. Without the struggle in the cocoon, it could not survive as a butterfly.

    The Lord prepares each of us in the similar way. Some of our childhoods see to have been harsh and born from a seemingly unloving God. However, the Lord knows ou struggle and will make our life an instrument in His hand if we follow him with an upright heart. He does make all things beautiful in His time if we are willing to be patient.

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