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means  “the God who is  more  than enough; the all-sufficient
        One”.  Isn’t it an amazing thing that Elimelech and Naomi go
        away because God and Bethlehem was not enough?   And when
        she comes back, she says, “I have come to know God as the
        God who is more than enough; the El Shaddai.”   All of that
        suffering  that  God  allowed  in  the  land  of  Moab,  all  of  that
        hardship, the tears that they faced, the graves that they had to
        go to, all of that was designed to show them that God is more
        than enough.


        Sometimes  we  might  feel  like  when  we  are  away  from
        Bethlehem, that maybe God hates us, and He has washed His
        hands of us, and He is just standing there with a big rod waiting
        to beat us because we are away from Bethlehem. But it is not
        that way at all.  What God is doing instead is engineering our
        situation and our circumstances so that we will finally come to
        the place where we know He is enough.

        When we come to the place that we call Him El Shaddai, we
        will come crawling back to Bethlehem.  And when we come
        crawling  back  to  Bethlehem,  we  have  crawled  over  the
        threshold which is the beginning of a life that is an oasis, a life
        that is filled with joy and relationship and produces a Savior for
        the  world.    That  is  why  God  does  that  in  our  lives.    Every
        forward step in your life in helplessness is a forward step in the
        knowledge of God and in the knowledge of His Word.

        The most victorious moment in any Christian’s life is the day
        he got saved because in that day he was nothing and Christ was
        everything.  So the whole Christian life is nothing more than
        going back to what we were when we first got saved, and as we
        have received Christ we are to walk in Him in that same way.
        So, we grow backwards to the cradle.


                             Back to Bethlehem;
                      Where Jesus is more than enough….
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