Corona Devo 76

Has the Lord given you the green light to move forward with something in your life, but your foot is still firmly planted on the brake?

I have a situation (maybe you do too), and I want to be excited about it, and I have sensed the Lord's go-ahead on it, but inside my head there is a mini battle waging.  I am not even sure why, but I want to talk myself out of moving forward.  I want to worry about tangent issues regarding it that probably won't ever occur.  I see the blessings surrounding the situation, but parts of me keep fighting it.

Why?
I can't figure that part out, either.  Why am I preventing myself from running toward something good?
Maybe sometimes that is our human nature--to "reason" ourselves out of blessing, or to worry ourselves out of it.

The same thing happened to the Israelites and they hemmed and hawed themselves into a 40-year detour around the Promised Land because of worry, insecurity and if we boil it all down--because of a lack of trust in God.  I don't want to delay God's promises for me, and I am sure you don't either.

God gave them the green light to head into the Promised Land:
6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and advance... 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”  Deuteronomy 1:6-8

God told the Israelites to move forward and He makes it very clear to them that He is blessing them with this land.  All that they have to do it go in and take it.

If the Lord has told you or me about something up and coming in our lives, then we can trust Him in achieving it.
And as we read on, the Lord knew the Israelites and their doubts, just as He knows us and ours.  He reminds them (and us!) again--Go and do it!  Whatever "the land" is in our lives that the Lord is giving to us, we can't be too afraid to claim it.

20 Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. 21 See, the Lord your God has given you the land. Go up and take possession of it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, told you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”  ~Deuteronomy 1:20-21

He says not to be afraid or discouraged.  Maybe that our issue.  We are afraid to fail, so we shrink back from the challenge sometimes.  If something is out of our comfort zone, sometimes we would rather not even attempt it.  But if God has promised (and commanded us) to move forward, it is disobedient to continue standing still.

Well, the Israelites were like us--they weren't sure they could just plow forward (trust!) with what God had told them to do--so they devised their own plan to feel things out.  Don't we do the same thing?  
And in their experiment, God came through with shining colors and showed them that the land was good and fertile and filled with good vegetation.

22 Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.”

23 The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. 24 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. 25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.”

So, they entered the Promised Land and lived happily ever after, right?

End of story, right?  

Wrong.  God said it...They didn't trust Him completely (anyone guilty of this  besides me?)...They tried their own thing, and God confirmed the original command...But there was still a lack of trust.  And it cost the Israelites 40 years of wandering before they found the Promised Land.

For my current situation, I feel the Lord has opened the door for it.  He has put a positive situation around it and caused the right things to happen for it to come to fruition.  

Green light.  For the Israelites into the Promised Land and for me and you if you you have a "Promised Land" situation/relationship/job/etc. in your life right now.  Let's not ruin it by worrying about the details and not trusting God (like the Israelites did):

26 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 27 You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. 28 Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”

29 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. 30 The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, 31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”

32 In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, 33 who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.

Guys!  Whatever our situation is right now in life, and for today: God goes ahead of us in it.  He leads us and guides us and protects.  He will not lead us astray, but we often lead ourselves astray (as the Israelites did) by worrying about things and people that seem too big for us.  And we fall short of trusting God enough to follow Him. 

The Israelites forgot that the Lord had fought for them (verse 30)--He has fought for you also!

The Israelites forgot that the Lord had been with them in the wilderness.  God has been there for me during my wilderness too.

The Lord carried them--He's carried you and me too.  

We have to remember all that the Lord has done for us.  All that he has brought us through.  And this is fuel for our trust-fire that must burn for God if we are to live out our faith in Him.

He won't lead us astray.  On the contrary: if He has given you the go-ahead in a Promised Land situation, then move forward with by taking His hand and trusting His sovereignty.

 “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid... 30 The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you"  ~Deuteronomy 1:29-30 

Blessings,

sarah

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