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Leaving Your Father’s House

When you find yourself in the wrong place, despite being with the right people with the same vision, you must be willing to reevaluate whether God is calling you to a new, more fitting location or community.

There are many reasons why you may choose to stay in “your father’s house” instead of finding your promised land. Probably the most common reason is that you haven’t yet found your people or your promised land, so you feel stuck.

You might not know where you are headed, but you live with a deep longing for more. You know you can’t stay where you are and still satisfy the intense passion within you. I would encourage you to consider following God with your whole heart and trusting Him to lead you. I find that there are times when the Lord is a “lamp to my feet” (Psalm 119:105). He only shows the next step. The main lesson in this season is to learn to trust Him with your destiny.

Then there are other times when He is a “light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). I love it when the Lord shows me the path that reveals my destiny. Path revelations bring clarity and, consequently, meaning to the daily steps of life. So sometimes the Holy Spirit is your compass, and other times He is your road map. Whatever season you are in, He will guide you to your destiny and lead you into all truth.

Jesus was emphatic about not allowing your loyalties to people to undermine your covenant with Christ. I still cringe at the difficulty of His exhortation when He boldly proclaimed, “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me” (Matthew 10:37-38).

I exhort you to embrace the pain (if indeed His words are painful to you), examine your journey, and boldly go where the Lord is leading you.