FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME …
From Adam’s plight to Christ’s RISEN SITE, it has always been man’s biggest quest TO TRUST GOD
Therefore…
IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT SOARING THE ‘HIGHS’
& TRUSTING THROUGH THE ‘LOWS’
BUT
‘THE STAND’ IN PEACE
WALKING IN FAITH
-EVERY SINGLE MOMENT; KEEPING ON EVERY DAY…
THE ABIDING, ABIDING…
TRUSTING GOD UNCONDITIONALLY
‘THAT WILL GET US THERE’
AS WE ARE SOAKED IN GRACE
GRACE – WHO IS CHRIST
MEDITATION:
Where you are right now in your life, God promises to BE AND GO with you.
THEREFORE WE CAN TRUST GOD
HIS Name is JEHOVAH SHAMAH – The God Who Is Here & Who is ALREADY There Where you are going
HE IS NOT A MAN THAT HE CAN LIE
HE CANNOT GO AGAINST WHO HE SAID HE IS
THERE IS A PREREQUISITE :
IF WE WILL TRUST HIM and DO NOT FEAR;
IF WE WILL BELIEVE !
IF WE DO NOT REBEL AGAINST HIM – THINKING WE KNOW BETTER
For how long must our Father still keep on, trying to convince us of His LOVE & all surpassing wisdom on our behalf?
For how long will we keep on rebelling AGAINST THE ROAD HE CHOOSES FOR US TO WALK & THE PLACE OF OUR PROMISE; knowing He knows best.
WHAT DOES HE SEES… THAT I AM MISSING…?
Straight road or narrow road, high road or valley trotting… there is everywhere a ‘risk’, a challenge… a curve to negotiate… even when it seems to me the perfect way to be
Only He has foresight will then be able to taking us then on the best path.
WHY DO WE STILL STRUGGLE TO TRUST GOD?
Through all that we have been through in our lives… NOT ONCE can we truly say God did not come through for us or left us to be on our own… unless we have rejected Him or stopped believing?
SCRIPTURE READING
( paraphrased )
Num 14:6-9
6 Joshua and Caleb, among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
7 and they spoke to the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
8 If the LORD delights in us, then HE will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us.
Do not fear them.”
Num 14:10-11
11 Then the LORD said to Moses:
“How long will these people reject Me?
And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?
Num 14:18-23
20 Then the LORD said: “I have pardoned, according to your word;
21 but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD—
22 because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,
23 they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.
Num 14:24
24 But My servant Caleb, BECAUSE HE HAS A DIFFERENT SPIRIT IN HIM and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
Num 14:30-32
30 Except for Caleb and Joshua, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.
31 But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
I gather – by the next verse – ” TO TRUST GOD ” is what He really wants us to do & TO HAVE FAITH in HIM
Num 14:34
34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
Num 14:38
38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land
Conclusion:
MANY OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED a sence of REJECTION through our lives
Was this not maybe because of our own doing?
Was this perhaps because we chose BY DEFAULT to distrust GOD & therefore experienced a loss of LOVE & COMFORT?
Through Christ ALL things were made NEW – this means
WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED TO OUR FATHER’S LOVE ETERNALLY
HAVE YOU PERHAPS FORFEITED THIS PLACE OF PEACE & ACCEPTANCE
Because you withdrew from Him?
Because we have stopped TO TRUST GOD?