Taking Our Rightful Places (Once We Know We've Been Displaced)

Are we able to see how our enemy has displaced us, God's people? Nine years ago my husband and I stepped onto a hand made floor map that depicted the places where people had once lived in an area called District Six, Cape Town, South Africa. We wept.

And in those nine years we've met countless others displaced by war, greed, economics, crime, etc. Ultimately we've all been displaced since the moment Adam and Eve gave dominion over to Satan. The good news is that God knew we would, and yet, He made a plan for us to return- through His Son, Jesus. Before you go thinking this is just an evangelistic ranting....take time to see, to ask yourself... "am I where I'm supposed to be?" "Is this all there is for my life?"

Someone once asked me, "when's it all going to start, Susan?" I thought, 'how should I know?' But out of my mouth came these words... "when people take their rightful places." I was as startled and confused as my friend who'd asked the question. That night in a dream God indicated: Kings 5:5. I woke up and read it immediately. What I deduced was that Solomon knew who he was destined to be and what he was destined to do. And when his father had died and he had succeeded him as king, he chose to take his rightful place in the Kingdom of God, being and doing with all his heart exactly what God had promised his father he would do. Hmm. What about us?

Well, when we are able to admit our displacement God is then able to reveal to us our rightful place. For those of you not able to get past displacement, check out what God says in Hosea 2:14:

"Therefore I am now going to allure her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. In that day," declares the Lord, "you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master. I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips; no longer will their names be invoked. In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety. I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord."

"In that day I will respond," declares the Lord- "I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth; and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and oil and they will respond to Jezreel. I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called 'Not my loved one.' I will say to those called 'Not my people,' 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'You are my God.'"