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Ok, so here’s the deal..
in some earlier entry I mentioned the story of when Joshua led the Israelites into the promised land and I was wondering about the whole promised land thing. But what keeps getting clearer to me now is the part where the Israelites ate from the produce of the land and the same day the manna stopped coming.
Now, for some reason I thought that there’s something very significant about that event at the time but I didn’t know why. But that’s the part I’m starting to understand now and why it’s so significant.
See, in the desert they’ve been eating manna from heaven every day – Gods supernatural provision – for 40 years. When they came into the promised land it was a land they no longer needed supernatural provision.. or so they thought.
There surely was enough food. But the problem was that they stopped counting on God to provide it for them. Sure, God provided by bringing them to that place. But their trust was no longer in God but in the land and their ability to get the food on their own.
That’s were we (especially me) have to watch out. Count on God in everything. Sure, he gave us abilities, talents, strengths, resources, friends, families etc. but we need to keep our hope and trust in him and not in those things. That kind of an attitude would make life as a lukewarm christian impossible because it forces me to constantly be in prayer and keep my focus totally on him. There is no room for a superficial relationship because such trust and dependence is so crucial.
I’m guessing that’s the lesson I need to learn right now. You know revival’s coming.. and it starts with us. So he’s making sure we’ll be prepared..!