FAITH CAPSULE: God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Genesis 11
The grace to see a new day or week, month or year is not a time of stagnation but to move forward, to grow by living life for God.
God is not a God of stagnation.
Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know?
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long and not recognizing moving forward or not?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his life journey.
The word records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32)
The destination of Terah was Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he stagnated to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
The stopping of Terah at Haran was not to replace him from stepping forward.
Terah’s stepping forward from the Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place.
God, calling you out of bondage, did not design a place for you not to move forward as a dwelling place.
God is a good God.
Live life for God and move forward, not become a victim of stagnation.
Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the concerning stagnation of the Israelites from the bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’”
Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in plans of going forward?
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.”
God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them.
Faith demands children of Israel move from where they might have been in comfort to where God committed to taking them.
Faith demands Israelites not make a dwelling place at stop-over.
Faith also demands to see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see and live life by the word of God.