FAITH CAPSULE: To see God shall enable one to live for His glory.
Numbers 32
Why not desire to find God?
Keep in mind that all exists for God.
One who exists for God needs to find God.
To find God is to see God.
To see God shall enable one to live for His glory.
Failure is impossible not to find (see) God for one who seeks Him diligently.
The word of God informs what it takes to find God.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
To seek God and find Him is not enough.
For example, the world flocks to Sunday service without a heart to find Him.To seek God and find is with the condition that one will see God.
Deuteronomy 4:29 states that you will seek Him, specifying the condition for finding Him.
A specific condition to find God is to seek Him with all heart and all soul.
To find God with all heart and all soul is impossible to fail in seeking God.
Seeking God with all heart and all soul demands consistency rooted in commitment.
Be committed to God as a way of life.
Commitment to God is a responsibility that leads to greatness, to the glory of God.
Responsibility is to be committed to the promise of God and not be discouraged by inconvenience in the journey of obtaining His promise.
What is the promise of God in place for your life?
By your desire, are you seeking what you want, instead of what you need?
God promised the Israelites milk and honey, but they asked for less from God.
The Israelites failed before God by not looking up to God to claim the promise God had for them. (Numbers 32: 1-7)
The Israelites wanted to settle for land with only milk.
Responsibility is committed to the promise and not discouraged by inconvenience.
It was not convenient for the children of Reuben and the children of Gad to move as commanded by God.
The lack of commitment is evidence of irresponsibility.
Without responsibility before God, one will not wholly follow God; will contradict the confession of faith; will consciously or unconsciously look away from God, to give way to the spirit of lukewarmness.
Irresponsible is to discontinue walking in line with God.
So much promise in the word of God, but man often settles for less because of inconvenience, as commitment suffers.
Indeed, not until one is empty of self can one be fully committed as responsible before God.
Elisha emptied himself when he departed from all that could have possibly denied his responsibility.
Elisha got committed to the calling of God.
He followed Elijah to live for the glory of God. (1 Kings 19:19-21)
Prayer for today: Ask that God enable you to live a life of commitment for His glory over your life.