God moves people away from familiar places to bless them in other places.

This thought came to mind as sometime in the past, I was speaking with a brother who was new in the area. He had said something along the lines of "People envy you when you get into a new place and start getting promotions, they forget you have existed somewhere else, and might have gone through trainings they have no idea about, that has prepared you for the new place and the attendant blessings you are receiving" His statement got me thinking .....

I have seen others come into a new area be it jobwise or environmentally, and it seems as if everything just starts to click in place, though some people had been there earlier and they never got those opportunities, someone new gets in and things change. I have been a recipient of this too. where it begins to hurt is when people who had been there before you came in start to see you as a threat, then the envy plotting's and jealousy backstabbing's begin in subtle ways, offhanded remarks and cold shoulders.

While I do not necessarily pay attention to unbelievers when they start reacting in this manner, I do take notice when it is coming from so called believers, and those you believe should know better from a Christian standpoint, what they fail to realize is that most times even from biblical examples, God trains people in a different clime, then moves them to another clime to bless them. While they did not experience or are not aware of the pains, sufferings, challenges and the journey God has taken the new comer through before they moved into the new area, they only get to experience the blessings and become unhappy with the blessing the new person is getting.

There is two parts to this, some people moved and eventually lost all they had . An example is Naomi and her family who moved to Moab, we see this event in Ruth 1:1-22 , After her losses she did recover when she went back home to Bethlehem and it was from this lineage Jesus Christ came. My focus with this writeup would be those who moved at Gods instruction and were blessed.

Abraham was called by God from Ur in Genesis 12:1 to go to a land promised by God. Abraham went through training processes from lying to save himself from a King who took his wife Sarah in Genesis 20, to waiting for the promised child "Isaac" to listening to his wife's impatient suggestion which led to the birth of "Ismael" in Genesis 16 :1-13, sending away the mother of the child not promised "Hagar" in Genesis 21:8-21, to dealing with a selfish relative "lot" in Genesis 13. Every challenge he went through helped him grow his relationship with God, to the extent God call Abraham his friend in Isaiah 41:8 , so much so that God could not hide the destruction of Sodom from Abraham, which led to Abraham interceding on behalf of Lot leading to the preservation of Lot and his children in Genesis 19. During these processes, Abraham moved a couple of times to other areas to live, but at the end, God blessed Abraham so much that the bible says in Genesis 26: 13-14 "The philistines envied him".

Moses was not called to leave Egypt, He fled after mistakenly killing someone and settled in Midian. Moses already had some royal trainings as a prince, he was also trained by his mother in the way of God. At Midian he learned to take care of livestock, when God was done with the trainings, He was sent back to Egypt to deliver his people. In Numbers 12:1-15 Aaron his brother and Miriam his sister spoke against Moses, what did God do to them?  Miriam became a leper! They were siblings, but they were not the ones prepared by God for the deliverance assignment. So punishment can come to persons who out of envy and discontentment speak against people raised to higher positions by God. in Proverbs 6:19 , we see one of the things God hates "And one who sows discord among brethren" Many times, the discontentment starts from one person who spreads it to others causing discord, its best you know that , God hates that.

From the trainings Moses had with taking care of the flock, he learned to care and love for others, as we saw him begging God on behalf of the Israelites several times in Exodus 32:11-14 , which we never saw his siblings do. Another training he had was staying and waiting on God, which his siblings did not have because when they felt Moses had been gone a long time; and they were not sure he was coming back, Aaron caved in to the peoples request to make a golden calf, which led to the death of a lot of the Israelites in Exodus 32:1-35.

The process you did not see someone go through even if they grew up right in your face, is what sets them apart for a purpose, and the reason they are placed in positions by God. Quit the envying and back talks, pray to god to help you fulfil His purpose for your life too.

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