Evangel Daily

Our environment affects us in no small measure. When we are in the right place, right things happen to us and vice versa. The Bible is replete with examples of the foregoing. Dinah went to meet the young women of the gentile community; she was grabbed forcefully and raped. That was an unwholesome environment (Genesis 34:2). God called Abraham and demanded that he cut off himself from his environment and launch out to a new place he will see results to show his generation.

The implication of that call was your

destiny cannot be realized at your present location. A choice was place before him.

Every life on earth is created with a purpose and a potential. You might be born to be the arrow-head of your family, community, church, career line, etc. If you fail, you will leave many in the wood. Abraham did not fail God or mankind. In our text, there was an environmental upheaval in Judah and Elimelech moved with his family to Moab. There is no record to show it was God's directive then. It was a move he made based on self-will. He later lost his life with two of his children. Elimelech means God is King and Bethlehem means house of Bread. He left without asking God a question and left the house of Bread to ask for bread in a gentile nation. He was told he was seeking the living among the dead. Child of God, do not do a thing without divine clearance, it back fires.

Every man's lot in life is a function of one's true identity and environmental exposure. Sometimes, you move with God and other times you stay. God told Joseph and Mary to move to Egypt and later asked them to retum. God told Isaac not move to anywhere, that He would bless him. And He (God) did.