No Longer Wanderers… When the Lap is Over!
This, Our 40th Divine Design Blog is God-inspired and Sister-shared with Corinna Clark, as He placed the topic, “No Longer Wanderers” on her heart! The great significance of the number 40 is woven throughout scripture. It can range from Jesus’ trials being in the desert to the 40 days after His Resurrection, it can also encompass New Beginnings to the Completion of God’s Purpose.
Imagine an 11 day trip becoming 14,610 days due to unbelief and disobedience! A trek from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea was less than two weeks, but because the response of the Children of Israel to the God who delivered, provided, and protected them was riddled with murmuring and complaining and full out rebellion- actually became 40 years in the wilderness!
Oh, but what glorious acts come out of obedience and aligning our speech with Heaven! Terms like “filled with the Spirit of wisdom” and “different Spirit” followed Joshua and Caleb. They were the only two from their generation who actually entered the Promise Land. Roughly a million plus people perished in the wilderness! When we truly think about the access obedience affords us!
Joshua 5:9 reads, “And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.” It was The Children of the Children of Israel who were the ones that laid their eyes on The Promise! A reproach laid up for their parents was removed from them, out of their Act of obedience, just as the cut of the circumcision showed their covenant with God!
I keep going back to the shouts that we miss! Our father’s sin does not have to be our own. Lessons can be learned from those whom we know experienced God, but at some point took His Grace for granted. Romans 6:1-2 AMP says, “What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] [a]grace may increase and overflow? 2 Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer? Through Christ Jesus, we have been empowered to do life differently. We have been equipped with the Fruit of the Spirit, the essence of who God is!
Beloved Reader, we do not have to wander. We no longer have to take multiple laps! Notice the end of a track meet, the race does not end in the curve; rather it finishes in the straight away. Choose the straight path. Stay the course and watch God prepare a Promise that far exceeds your thoughts and desires! The Win in God starts and ends in our ability to get out the block and cross over the line with obedience as our adrenaline, our purpose, and our response to the One who brought us out of Egypt [ The World ] into His Promise Land!
DIVINE WORK & PRAY:
WORK:
Jot down in your journal what areas that you feel you are repeating and taking multiple laps due to not being obedient. Write out passages of scripture concerning men and women who obeyed God and what was accomplished.
PRAY:
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