God Accepted and Moved on!

1 Chronicles 1:28
The sons of Abraham:
Isaac and Ishmael.

To accept and move on, is bringing an end to a bad experience. Many voters were excited that their candidate will become president of the country. Unfortunately whether true or not, it seems the election was not free and fair. Something mischievous happened and their candidate lost the election. The announcement of results causes anger and feelings of helplessness against a corrupt system that would never be fair. For a moment everything comes to a standstill.

In such a situation things can get worse or better. It can get worse if they reject the results and start violent demonstrations to demand justice. They may also respond by totally giving up hope in the future welfare of their country. Tension may prevail for a while, thereby killing business and the economy. However, they can also choose to accept and move on. Many times people are advised to accept and move on.

You accept not because it was acceptable but because you have reconciled it with yourself. You accept because you have forgiven. You accept because you have chosen peace over violence. You accept because the welfare of the country is better than your own personal or group interest. You accept because you want to live to fight another day. You accept not because you approve of the electoral fraud, but because you have put closure to that painful experience. When people accept and move on, we should never misunderstand that to mean that our wrong decisions were right or we have convinced them. Many times after terrible experiences, people are advised to accept and move on!

The alternative of not accepting and moving on is a total breakdown of a relationship. Degeneration of the situation. A series of chaos and death. A loss of nationhood such as how Somalia and Zaire now the Democratic Republic of Congo lost it when presidents changed. Somalia was a nation but when Major General Mohamed Siad Bare left in 1991, the warring factions refused to accept and move on and we no longer have the same proper nation of Somalia. Somalia broke into two.

There are international attempts to maintain peace. Warring factions are engaged in mass killings ad the situation has been dire since 1991to this day thirty years later. Why? They refused to accept and move on. The same thing with Zaire after president Mobutu left in 1997 and factions refused to accept the new governments. To this day the country is in pieces and at war with itself twenty-four years later. They could not accept and move on!

If we do not accept and move on, the harm is greater. Christianity teaches forgiveness and reconciliation. It is forgiveness and reconciliation that allows us to accept and move on. The death of a loved one can traumatize and one of the healing processes is to accept and move on. When property and other losses occur, you will only excel and prosper if you accept the loss and move on. If you are rejected by a loved one, you will not move into another relationship properly, until you accept and move on!

Abraham offended God. God had promised Abraham and Sarah that He will give them a child, who will, in turn, become a great nation. After waiting for long, Abraham and Sarah mistrusted God and decided to have a child through adultery between Abraham and his servant Hagar. Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. God was angry at their decision. Ishmael became a symbol of Abraham and Sarah’s lack of faith in God. God was offended but He accepted and moved on!

In our text today, God inspires historians to write the genealogy of Abrahams’s descendants. God gets to naming the children of Abraham and He allows both the son He gave that is Isaac to be named together with the one who came from disobedience that is Ishmael. This is a clear sign that God accepted and moved on. God is no longer grumbling and whining about being mistrusted and Ishmael’s birth. God was significantly offended, but God accepted and moved on!

God is offended by David having a child with Bathsheba. God is offended that David kills Uriah in order to cover the pregnancy of Bathsheba. This is adultery and murder, the two worst sins according to poor-sighted human beings (because all sins are equal in terribleness). Yet God forgives David. Yet God allows Bathsheba’s son Solomon to be heir of the Kingdom of Israel. Yet God allows the son of this immoral union, the son of a union that caused the murder of Uriah, to be a great grandfather of Jesus Christ our Lord. Clearly, God accepted and moved on!

If God can accept and move on, we too should learn to accept and move on. Jesus said if someone slaps you on one side, give them the other side. That is as good as accept and move on. God promises that He will revenge all the pains and heartaches that others have caused us. God’s revenge is right here on earth and also at the end of time. When you accept and move on, you have allowed God to revenge. God will not revenge until you accept and move on.

When Joseph accepted his situation in Egypt, God revenged on the brothers who sold him. They came and bowed before Joseph totally humbled and feeling stupid about their previous actions. God revenges when you accept and move on. Accept and move on.

Some troubles are best handled by accepting and moving on. Paul prayed about a thorn in his flesh, a physical situation that bothered him. God responded by saying the situation will not change. He will remain with the physical challenge. God tells Paul to accept that bad situation and move on. In accepting a bad situation he becomes strong because God’s grace covers him. God’s grace effectively helps us in bad abiding situations when we accept and move on!

Everyone has something and some situation in life that they need to accept and move on. Without accepting and moving on, the pain will be greater and future prospects of success will be killed. We need to accept some illness and move on. We need to accept some death and move on. We need to accept some losses and move on. We need to accept some offense that was done and move on. We need to accept that it has not turned out as we expected and we must now live with this disappointment. Whatever it is, God’s grace is available and sufficient, if you accept and move on!

If God accepted and moved on, we too can accept and move on. Help us dear God to accept and move on, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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