Hello and welcome back to another Revelation Post! This download came while listening to a sermon in my free-time and the moment the Word was read, I felt this revelation unfold and knew I needed to jot it down. I pray it encourages and blesses you as it did me!
Exodus 13:17 (ESV) states: “The Lord knew if the children of Israel faced warfare, they’d change their minds regarding their liberation from Egypt”. He knew they’d turn back not just from freedom but from Him. And many of us may think “well if God is with them a little warfare wouldn’t hurt them. God could just make it so they win” but fail to realize or remember that God is sovereign. He knows what’s best for His children whether we understand it or not, and often we’re not going to understand it. God spoke in Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts”. God knows best.
The path the children of Israel walked was longer, but it led to a pruning of the heart, great revelation, and many demonstrations of God’s might and faithfulness while dealing with a tribe of imperfect people who were quick to forget His goodness. To us on the outside the wilderness God took the children of Israel through may mirror a wilderness we are experiencing in our walk currently, but some great takeaways are this:
– God appointed a leader to guide us, though it’s not a man like Moses. We are led by someone far greater who lives on the inside of us, and that is Holy Spirit
-If God provided for an ungrateful people He is faithful to provide for us too, not just naturally but spiritually
-The same way we entered won’t be the same way we leave. For everything that would turn us away from God will be shaken off and pruned from us, just as those rebellious and disobedient Israelites died in the wilderness and the more obedient of the group made it to the Promised Land
-There is a Promise Land, a place of fulfilment that will make the wilderness trek more than worth it.
Proverbs 3:5-6 tells us “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths”. Trust in Him, even when you don’t understand
Let the Holy Spirit lead and guide you. Trust in His promises in the midst of the process. Numbers 23:19 tells us “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
If He said it, we can trust that He’ll do it. Be patient; for whatever God has spoken over you WILL come to pass. Let Him prune, stretch you and refine you, so that when the time comes, you’re fully able to manage the promise. And remember Isaiah 60:22 tells us “At the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen” so move forward in peace knowing God is never late, never early, but always on time.
Be encouraged and I pray this reminds you of the faithfulness of God.
Until next time
– JB
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