FAITH CAPSULE: Settling for convenience in the place of commitment is stepping away from God.

Numbers 32

The coming out of the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years to a land that flows with milk and honey is a lesson for all not to replace commitment with convenience. 
God repeatedly gave His word of command to the children of Israel, “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…” (Exodus 3:8) 
The command of God demands a diligent commitment. 
However, the story changed when the children of Israel, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Reuben settled for convenience and could not commit to the word of God as commanded.
In truth, every word of God will stand without failing.
God does not violate His word, but the world is not strange to disobey the word of God. 
God decided to deliver the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years.
God is God with goodness and mercy, promised a land flowing with milk and honey for the children of Israel.
Claiming the promise demands commitment over convenience to the word of God.
Are you choosing how to propagate your life journey in line with God?
The children of Gad and Reuben were convenient with the land that flows with milk only. 
God did not promise a land that flows with only milk but a land that flows with milk and honey. 
The ignorance of the children of Gad and Reuben demanded to stay back, and Moses responded to the demand, “…Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here? Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.” (Numbers 32:6-9) 
Is it discouragement that is between your commitments to the command of God, His word, and His promise? 
The children of Gad and Reuben wanted not to cross to the promise of God.
In the attempt not to cross over where God has planned for anyone to, challenges will come across in the journey.
Are you settling for convenience instead of commitment?
Settling for convenience in the place of commitment is taking assuming wrong.
Proverbs 14:12 mentions the consequence for anyone who assumes with no assurance way.
“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12) 
Let the commitment to God reign.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to answer in your life in all your endeavors.