Faithful Capsule: “Spiritual insensitivity will definitely reduce and not increase a believer.”

Numbers 32

Among the negative effect of spiritual insensitivity is to settle for less where God has made much available. The God who brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years had so much available for them in the Promised Land. The Word of God states, “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) What could be better than moving from bondage to a land that flows with milk and honey? Among the children of Israel, it was a different case for the children of Gad and the children of Reuben when they decided to settle at the east of Jordan. The Bible recorded that they had a very great multitude of livestock and that prompted a request for a settlement in the region which was a place for livestock. The children of Gad and of Reuben approached Moses to state 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 of milk and honey, but they resolved themselves to just milk. The land of milk was conveniently enough for them. It is good to be convenient, but when commitment in your convenient is slack you will become insensitive to the move of the Spirit. However, spiritual insensitivity will definitely reduce and not increase a believer. God’s plan and promise was to take them to a land that flows with milk and honey, but getting to the land that flows with only milk got them out of God’s plan. Moses questioned their decision, “Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? (Numbers 32:7) Are you operating in the mind of the children of Gad and Reuben in any way in your journey to the Promised Land? Do not allow convenience to cloud your commitment. In your journey be sensitive to what the Spirit of God has said and the One who is speaking. God has a better plan than you can see. Convenient is good, but do not slack in your commitment.

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