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When God calls us out of our old lives, He wants us to move forward in Him
believing that He is there with us every step of the way. He wants us to have simple, raw,
child like faith that He will push, pull, or drag us through whatever He has in mind for us so we'll reach
The Promised Land.
Unfortunately, a lot
of us are too terrified to
take a step forward. We're too afraid to march onward like the soldiers He
wants us to be.
Those of us who can't or won't trust God to get us through, those who lack faith
in Him will remain bound up and manacled, prisoners of something unseen by our human eyes, but very real nonetheless. Something that the enemy uses against us to cause us to distrust the Lord, to
cause us to hesitate when He calls us to move, to nearly destroy us just when we're on the edge of a breakthrough. That weapon is called doubt. Others call it disbelief.
If we give in to our doubts, we'll never fully experience the freedom that the Lord promised. We'll never know the awesome power of God and the depth of His love for us.
Looking at the ancient Israelites, it's easy to see that they're not much different than we are today. For example, when God promised them that He would lead them to "the land filled with milk and honey", they expected Him to immediately
take them there. What they didn't realize was that their hearts, their minds, their spirits needed to be prepared before they entered that land. That journey costed them extra time. About 40 years worth of time.
Why?
Because they were too stubborn to unreservedly trust God. Just like us Christians today, when
the future began to look
a little scary, when it seemed like things were about to go awry, they
questioned God's motivations. Their minds surely told them that if they followed God,
if they trusted where He was leading them, then they'd meet destruction.
If we give in and pay attention to the doubts that our minds are constantly
spewing forth, if we begin to wonder if God is leading us down the wrong path in
order to punish us, it'll be next to impossible to believe what God promised in
Jeremiah 29:11. We'll be like the ancient Israelites who asked Moses: "Hast thou
taken us away to die in the wilderness?" as they reached the border of freedom.
If we don't silence our doubts, then we'll never fully trust in the fact that God has only what is best for us in mind. Our doubts about the Lord's intentions will pull us away from Him faster than you can say the word "gone".
"For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness,"
the Israelites told Moses. Just like them, we Christians have a tendency to look
back and think about better days, but if we do, we'll never see what's ahead of
us. We'll never cross that finish line into The Promised Land.
We need to have the faith of Moses: even though things looked bad, when the
Israelites were staring death in the face, when their backs were to the sea, and
they were facing an imminent onslaught by the Egyptian army, rather than melt with fear, Moses confidently told the Israelites, "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day."
Did they believe that God would bail them out? Not on your life! They had yet to experience the awesome power of God, the miraculous power of the God of the universe. In their limited experience, they hadn't seen all that He can and will do for His children.
Just like the Israelites, in our finite understanding, when we experience doubt, rather than look to God and wait on Him to strut His stuff,
we oftentimes voice our fears.
When the Israelites saw that God had parted the sea so they could walk across to safety on dry land,
not unlike we Christians of today, they probably stood there, gaping open-mouthed and wanting to trust Him completely, wanting to run straight through, but at the last second, hesitating, worried that God would let the sea come crashing down on them when they were halfway across. Their minds replaying all of their sins, terrified that God had brought them out there so He could use that occasion to punish them for their sins.
When the end seems to be in sight, we tend to wonder what we'll have to go through next. What
we can't see, but God can, is when we're on the border of a breakthrough and we just need a little nudge in the right direction.
Once they crossed the sea on dry land, God proved to them that He was there with them when He let the sea fall back into place and decimate the
Egyptians, utterly destroying their enemies who were bent on killing them.
He still does the same for us today. He still destroys our enemies, whether they
be Egyptians, or something else that causes us to sin.
In Joshua 1:5, God promised that He would never
forsake the Israelites. That promise applies to us in the here and now. Just like the
Israelites, He will never
desert us, He
will guard us night and day.
He will be there to light our way, never allowing us to travel down that road to
destruction.
In Matthew 28, Jesus promised: "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Rather than give in to the spirits of fear
and mistrust, which come from the enemy, let's move boldly into The Promised Land, trusting fully in the love of God.
Let's step forward, believing wholeheartedly that He wants only the best for His children.
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