FAITH CAPSULE: Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God’s command.

Numbers 32

Living a life journey with comfort outside of the comfortably should not identify as a sin. 
However, when one comfortably places comfort ahead of commitment to the direction of God, in the life of journey, such is set not to arrive at the center of the divine assignment. 
God, in His goodness and mercy, brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years with a plan to settle them in the Promised Land. 
It is written, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8) 
God wanted to place them from bondage to abundance when he promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. 
God promised to bring the Israelites out of bondage, but the children of Gad and Reuben engaged comfort in the place of commitment and decided to settle in the East of Jordan. 
The Bible records that they had a great multitude of livestock, which prompted a request for a settlement in the region that was a place for livestock that was more comfortable by their understanding instead of the promise of God. 
Despite their understanding of the plan of God, they attempted a choice to wander from the way of God. 
Are you attempting to wander from the way of understanding gained from the word of God? 
Proverbs 21:16 admonishes, “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben approached Moses and stated their desire, “…the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.’ Therefore they said, ‘If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.’” (Numbers 32:4-5) 
It is clear that where there is livestock, milk will flow, but not honey. 
God promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but they attempted to settle for the comforting land of their understanding. 
The land which flowed with milk was comfortable enough for them. 
It is good to be comfortable but not to replace the command of God. Placing comfort above the direction of God is a direct avenue to becoming insensitive to the move of the Spirit of God. 
Spiritual insensitivity will reduce and not increase a believer. 
Are you operating the mind of the children of Gad and Reuben as you engage personal direction against the direction of God to the Promised Land? 
Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God to the command of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to restore you for whatever you have lost to spiritual insensitivity.