Wednesday Reading: Numbers 14:11-20
Key Verse: Numbers 14:18
18 Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.
Devotion:
Oh how quickly we forget things, how quickly we cast aside the things we don’t like, how quickly we place blame on others we are too impatient to wait for... As humans we have many shortcomings and all of them can be brought down to the single fact that we are weak and give in to temptation. Right from Adam and Eve we have so many witnessing events in our bibles showing us over and over again that we are weak and that we really do need to depend on God for our strength – why then do we always turn round and say that we can do it by ourselves? Why, because we are not patiently waiting on God!
When God was leading the Children of Israel through the desert He made sure that they knew how powerful He was through the things that He did. He made sure that they were safe and that they were kept in all their needs. But still He knew that they would cave in and seek after their own ways; and yet He continued to show mercy because there was at least one person who lifted up their prayers to God. God continues to listen to our prayers each and every day. He continues to set about answering them each and every day. We are the ones who give up waiting on Him and think we can do things our own way; we are the ones in error!
God wants us to be proud to be called Christians. He wants us to lift His name up above all else and say that we are His. He wants us to tell the world that He is God and that He alone is the one that deserves our worship. How can we not see this simple fact when we look back over the history of the world and see just how much He has done for us over the ages? The deeper we look into history, the more we find out about how man has failed and God has succeeded! Lift His name up and glorify Him alone because He is our God who listens to our prayers and loves us more than we know!
Points to Ponder:
Have you ever succeeded in doing God’s Work?
Are you depending on Him fully?
