Geographical will of God :
Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.
Genesis 28:15 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
Do we need journeying mercies? Here are choice ones—God’s presence and preservation, In all places we need both of these, and in all places we shall have them if we go at the call of duty, and not merely according to our own fancy. Why should we look upon removal to another country as a sorrowful necessity when it is laid upon us by the divine will?
In all lands the believer is equally a pilgrim and a stranger; and yet in every region the Lord is His dwelling place, even as He has been to His saints in all generations. We may miss the protection of an earthly monarch, but when God says, “I will keep thee,” we are in no real danger. This is a blessed passport for a traveler and a heavenly escort for an emigrant.
Jacob had never left his father’s room before; he had been a mother’s boy and not an adventurer tike his brother. Yet he went abroad, and God went with him. He had little luggage and no attendants; yet no prince ever journeyed with a nobler bodyguard. Even while he slept in the open field, angels watched over him, and the Lord God spoke to him. If the Lord bids us go, let us say with our Lord Jesus, “Arise, let us go hence.” R1
It’s the geographical will of God which should acceptable by us in terms of choice. God is sovereign & He knows what is He doing ! Some time we really wonder that why God has called us in the places we don’t like or far from our close ones.
Tell you something, last afternoon I went to meet one of my brother & friend in Christ for some work but when I reach there I heard that he has gone to airport to see off his wife cause his father in law has died on the morning. When he back we started conversing & beautifully he said to me that it’s the cost of discipleship that we have to pay as we can’t support when our loved ones suffer or die. You know what came in my mind instantly ! I thought of the Greek word mathetes which means a learner & follower of Jesus Christ.
Think ! we all have to follow Jesus as he called to follow.
GOD KNOWS THE BEST FOR US.
R1 C. H. Spurgeon
