Miami Shores Baptist Church

Withdrawal can be the beginning step toward hatred. When we stop engaging our spouse, our children, our friends, our family, when we choose to turn away from them, that can be the first step toward bitterness and brokenness. In our church family, it can be easy to turn away. The question is, how do we not do what is so natural. How do we not withdraw? We must have our minds made up to obey the Lord. We must have our minds made up to walk through whatever it is as long as God allows. And we must have our souls resolved to the fact that apart from Him, we can not do it. We must confess what we really want/feel to the Lord. We must confess the ugly, the hurt, even the ill-will to Jesus.Our tendency is to justify ourselves. Our tendency is to give up. But if God encourages us to take another step, we can rest in Him. We can trust Him to lead the way, to show us what we should do, to help us respond, to gently deal with us first, and trust Him to work on others when He sees fit. Even when the situation is hard, we