FAITH CAPSULE:<\/b> Settling for convenience in the place of commitment is man\u2019s way.<\/p>\n
Numbers 32<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The case of the children of Israel being called out of bondage of over four hundred years to a land that flows with milk and honey is a lesson for man not replaces commitment with convenience. God repeatedly gave His word of command to the children of Israel stating, \u201cSo I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey\u2026\u201d (Exodus 3:8)<\/i><\/b> His command demands a diligent commitment. However, the story changed when the children of Israel, the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Reuben settled for convenience and could not commit to the word that God had committed Himself to perform.
\nGod does not violate His word. Often times when we violate His word then the world violates us. God that promised the land which flows with milk and honey gave His word with expectation for the children of Israel to live by it. Are you finding comfort in going for what the Lord did not promise you instead of His promise for you?<\/p>\n
Are you finding comfort in going for what the Lord did not give or promise you? The children of Gad and Reuben were convenient with the land that flows with milk only. God did not promise a land that flows with only milk but the land that flows with milk and honey. As a result, the demanded to stay back and Moses responded to the demand of the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, \u201c\u2026Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.\u201d\u201d (Numbers 32:6-9)<\/i><\/b> Is it discouragement that is between your commitments to God\u2019s word? In the attempt of not to cross over where God has planned for man\u2019s cross over, challenges will come across man\u2019s way in the journey of life. Are you settling for convenience instead commitment?<\/p>\n
Settling for convenience in the place of commitment is taking to the way that seems right to a man. Proverbs 14:12 mentioned the consequence of taking to one\u2019s own way, \u201cThere is a way that seems<\/i> right to a man, but its end is<\/i> the way of death.\u201d Let commitment to God reign.<\/p>\n
Prayer for today:<\/b> Ask God for the grace to be constantly and fully committed in all areas of His command.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FAITH CAPSULE: Settling for convenience in the place of commitment is man\u2019s way. Numbers 32 The case of the children of Israel being called out of bondage of over four hundred years to a land that flows with milk and honey is a lesson for man not replaces commitment with convenience. God repeatedly gave His … Continue reading IS IT COMMITMENT OR CONVENIENCE?<\/span>