FAITH CAPSULE: Temptation, confrontation, aggravation, only increase when one’s journey gets closer to the Promised Land.

Numbers 20: 1-13 

Temptation, confrontation, aggravation and every other agent of termination will bring forth failure or untimely death. Agents of termination never cease in every journey especially when the journey is of God. Temptation, confrontation, aggravation, (agents of distraction) only increase when one’s journey gets closer to the Promised Land. However, as much as the work of the agents of termination persists, God will also continue to give mercy to carry you through. God’s mercy will not and does not run out; it is only His creation that often runs out of His mercy. The higher the level of your calling, the greater the level and the intensity of the enemy will be in attempt to stop or deny the manifestation of your calling. Moses was called by God to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. Moses’ calling was close to touching God, but yet the enemy made him to exhaust patience. God, however, did not allow the enemy to be exalted over his life when He allowed him to see the land but not to step on the land. From the beginning to the end of his calling, it was an encounter with the enemy using the children of Israel as the instrument of getting to Moses. Rebellious acts were the pattern that was consistently used, but Moses was always on top of it. At the Red Sea, the crying and the fear in the life of the children of Israel was enough a provocation for Moses, but it did not prevail. As they complained and confessed negative against Moses for hunger so they did for water and every other discomfort in their journey. It is written, “Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the LORD! Why have you brought up the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? (Numbers 20:2-5)This kind of provocative complaint cost Moses his Promised Land. Moses’ response to the pressure of providing water from the rock was not in line with God’s direction. Having flourished in overcoming many confrontations and aggravations, Moses faltered just at one of the last stops before getting into the Promised Land. Moses spoke and struck the rock with rod instead of just speaking as the Lord commanded. You are closer to your miracle than when you first started the journey. In your last step to where God is taking you, be very conscious, focus and not to falter.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you in keeping His word and obeying His command that you may stand and not fall.