Somethin's Cookin' in the Cave, part 2

By Charles Scott
In order to handle your cave, you must know that the cave is where you get your start – God did great things in caves. David gathered a mighty army in a cave. Obadiah hid prophets in a cave. Elijah heard the still, small voice of God in a cave. Lazarus was laid to rest for four days in a cave before being raised from the dead by the Resurrection and the Life. It is important for you to grasp this point: "Where you are only counts if that is where you intend to end up!"

If where I am is final, then that place has full power over my life – it has power over my emotions, my thinking and my destiny. But when I recognize this is only a beginning – a starting place, a birthing room – then I know that when I am in the cave it only has power if I intend to stay. But if I intend to keep going, then where I am is only for a season. May I submit to you that when Jesus started, He was in a cave, but when the wise men found Him, He was in a house? He ended up somewhere bigger and better than where He started. If you can manage the cave, then you can move to something bigger and better!

Watch the storyline: Jesus starts in a cave; they find Him in a house. He prays in the desert; He heals in the synagogue. He is baptized in the river; He preaches on the mountaintop. He walks on the water; He casts out demons in the graveyard. He prays in the Garden; He is crucified on the cross. He is laid in the tomb, but He ascends to the throne of God!

Stephen looked up into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father – if you can handle the cave, then God will take you to the throne! But if you can't handle where God calls you to begin, then you won't be able to handle the next season either. Hear this: handle what God gives you until He moves you!

Where you start does not have to be an indication or an indictment of where you will end up! Some of us have a testimony – through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning! When you know that the cave is not where you are headed, things will always look up! As a matter of fact, where you start hints at where you can go. If you start on the bottom, then there is only one direction to go – up!

Hear this: sometimes you will get into what you don't expect. Mary expected a room at the inn; she got a cave. Joseph too expected a bed; he got a cave. There will be times when you have to go through something you don't choose. You don't pick the cave – you don't go online to Expedia and choose to vacation at the cave. In a cave you can't see well; in a cave it is wet, cold and damp; in a cave you have limited vision, but allow me to say this: "If Jesus could handle the cave, then He can handle your condition."