"SOAR THROUGH IT"

Scripture: Genesis 32:24 

The first clause of this verse reads "and Jacob was left alone." Those words frighten many people. The medical world calls it monophobia when a person has a fear of being alone. A monophobic person will do anything necessary to avoid being left alone, even if it means hanging around people that can cause them harm. A monophobic person sees aloneness as more threatening than the harm that the dangerous relationship may cause.

God is a very strategic God and once we learn His strategy we live a better life. God surrounds us with people for several reasons (relationship, education, observation, partnership, collaboration, connection, etc.). But whenever God wants to elevate us he strategically pulls us away from the crowd. From Abraham in Genesis to John in Revelation, the Bible shows us that God has a season of isolation that He carries us through in order to prepare us for elevation.

Eagles do not live in isolation but they do soar alone. They have their times when they might share a limb or even the ground with a sparrow or geese but when it's time to soar, they know that they cannot invite the sparrow or geese to that level of elevation. If you have been pulled away from the crowd and left alone, learn that isolation is preparation for elevation. Soar through it.