A blessed people...
This is more indepth than usual and mostly just rambling, but I hope it lets you see my heart and you know how truly blessed I feel I am to have such a great God.
I have been recently been reading about the children of Isreal and their wandering in the wilderness. That topic is the typical Sunday School felt board lesson. Every good Sunday School going child could tell you the stories in their sleep. I, like most of you, could also tell them without thought or reminder. As I've been reading however, they have really touched my heart. Yes, there have been jokes told for years about the Isrealites wandering because Moses wouldn't stop and ask for directions, but what was God really teaching them? I have been guilty one more than one occasion of assuming they wandered because they weren't obeying God, and yes, I do believe that may be partly true. I also have believed that God was using this to teach them things, again, I believe this to be true. And yes, I know it was God's plan for them to wander all those years. But I really believe that God was using this time to show them his greatness. Everything God does is a reflection of his awesomeness. Many times I have thought to myself, "Wouldn't it have been cool to be alive during Jesus' day or in the OT when God was performing great miracles through his servants!!" Well, yes, that would have been cool, but there were people that were seeing these truly powerful works of God and yet still did not believe. One of Jesus' own beloved followers denied Christ after watching him for years. What makes me think that I would have any more faith in God if I had been there to witness these awesome events? Then I think about the awesome works God is showing us each and every day. It's awesome that we can breath and live every day. It's awesome that we have a Bible to read and study and look to for guidence. It's awesome that we can talk to God any time we want. There are some many things that we do every day that God allows. Yes, we all have our "wandering in the wilderness" times, but God makes himself known even then. Yes, we all wonder if God is really at work in today's world. I can assure you he is. He is more today than he was yesterday or even when Moses lead the children of Isreal. Yes, they saw great miracles, but did they believe because they saw or did they believe because they knew God was at work. We are blessed more today than ever before, not because we can see, but because we believe God is at work and we know he guides us each step of the way through our day.
I have been recently been reading about the children of Isreal and their wandering in the wilderness. That topic is the typical Sunday School felt board lesson. Every good Sunday School going child could tell you the stories in their sleep. I, like most of you, could also tell them without thought or reminder. As I've been reading however, they have really touched my heart. Yes, there have been jokes told for years about the Isrealites wandering because Moses wouldn't stop and ask for directions, but what was God really teaching them? I have been guilty one more than one occasion of assuming they wandered because they weren't obeying God, and yes, I do believe that may be partly true. I also have believed that God was using this to teach them things, again, I believe this to be true. And yes, I know it was God's plan for them to wander all those years. But I really believe that God was using this time to show them his greatness. Everything God does is a reflection of his awesomeness. Many times I have thought to myself, "Wouldn't it have been cool to be alive during Jesus' day or in the OT when God was performing great miracles through his servants!!" Well, yes, that would have been cool, but there were people that were seeing these truly powerful works of God and yet still did not believe. One of Jesus' own beloved followers denied Christ after watching him for years. What makes me think that I would have any more faith in God if I had been there to witness these awesome events? Then I think about the awesome works God is showing us each and every day. It's awesome that we can breath and live every day. It's awesome that we have a Bible to read and study and look to for guidence. It's awesome that we can talk to God any time we want. There are some many things that we do every day that God allows. Yes, we all have our "wandering in the wilderness" times, but God makes himself known even then. Yes, we all wonder if God is really at work in today's world. I can assure you he is. He is more today than he was yesterday or even when Moses lead the children of Isreal. Yes, they saw great miracles, but did they believe because they saw or did they believe because they knew God was at work. We are blessed more today than ever before, not because we can see, but because we believe God is at work and we know he guides us each step of the way through our day.
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