FAITH CAPSULE: Failure is impossible when obedient to God.

Numbers 32

Doing what God says is evidence of obedience to God.
With commitment to seek God as a responsibility, failure to find Him becomes impossible. Deuteronomy 4:29 encourages all that if we seek God, we will find Him, as stated: “…you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Responsibility entails being committed to the promises of God and not being discouraged by the inconveniences encountered during the journey of obtaining His promises.
The Israelites could not commit to God’s promise when they sought convenience instead.
The Children of Gad and the Children of Reuben chose to settle on the east side of the Jordan when God wanted them to cross over and establish themselves in the Promised Land. Numbers 32:1-7 documents, “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, ‘Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, 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.”’ And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben: ‘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?’”
God promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but they wanted to settle for land with only milk.
Responsibility requires commitment to God’s promise and not being discouraged by inconvenience. It was not convenient for the children of Reuben and the children of Gad to move as commanded by God.
A lack of commitment is evidence of irresponsibility in God’s way of life. Without responsibility before God, one will not wholly follow Him; one might contradict their confession of faith; one may consciously or unconsciously turn away from God, leading to a spirit of lukewarmness.
Being irresponsible means discontinuing alignment with God’s word.
There are many promises in the word of God, yet people often settle for less due to inconvenience when commitment wanes.
Indeed, until one is empty of self, they can never be fully committed and responsible before God.
Elisha emptied himself when he departed from all that could have potentially denied his responsibility to fully follow Elijah to the center of his divine assignment (1 Kings 19:19-21).

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be committed to God in all your ways.