Opinion / Columnist
Learning to Trust and Obey
24 Apr 2017 at 14:21hrs | Views
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations ... will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land ... therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. Numbers 14:15, 16.
The Lord had fulfilled the word that He spoke to Abraham when He declared that after the children of Israel had been in bondage four hundred years, He would deliver them.... God fulfilled His promise to ancient Israel... Even so, today He is still the same.
We shall be brought into strait places, but we do not want to wait until then before we learn to trust and obey. Now, just now, is our day of opportunity and privilege. When the light of truth is shining upon us, we are to learn the lesson.
Let us plead with God to give us a true conception of His character and a willingness to obey Him.
We are living in a day of trial, a day of probation, a day of test. God is proving His people, to see whether He can work in their behalf. He cannot work for them if they open their hearts to the impulses of the enemy. He cannot cooperate with them if they trust in human beings in the place of looking to Jesus, and rejoicing in His goodness and His love.
God wants to make of us a people through whom He can reveal His grace, and He will do this if we will only give Him opportunity, if we will open the windows of the soul heavenward and close them earthward against human rabble, against murmuring, complaining, and faultfinding....
... And we will trust and obey Him, giving first preference to others, caring for the needy, helping the vulnerable, and living a life led by pure religion motives. God help us as we labour in His Vineyard
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