FAITH CAPSULE: Are you on the way to God’s Promised Land?

Exodus 13: 17-22
 
The children of Israel were lost and down in bondage for over four hundred years before God visited them with favor and salvation.
They were lost and found; they were set for the Promise Land. If you have been found by the grace of God from the depth of sin, He wants to take you to an expected end–a Promised Land that was purchased for us by the blood that was shed on Calvary. He did not find you for untimely death or failure. The God that found and brought the children of Israel out of bondage did not mean for them not to get to the Promise Land. For one to be free from bondage is incomplete until one’s arrival to the Promised Land is realized. Many ways lead to the Promise Land, but the only way that will enable one to get there is the way of the wilderness.
It is not one’s own choice of way. The way that leads to Promised Land is the choice of the one who called all. To get to the Promise Land, one will have to go through the wilderness. The way of the wilderness is a way of no return. Exodus 13:17, “Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, ‘Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.’”
The way that seems right to man is a short distance. However, it is important to realize that a short –cut will always cut man short from getting to God’s Promised Land. Proverbs 14:12 buttress,“There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” 
The purpose of the wilderness way is for one not to return, but to keep one going. It is the way that God has put everything in place for one to travel within a reasonable amount of time. It is a way where one is going to be equipped on how one will live and enjoy where God is leading one to. Are you on the way to God’s Promised Land? Getting to the Promised Land is the reason why Jesus came and went on the Calvary. On the way to the Promised Land, one will bump head with the enemy because the enemy does not want to see no one to prevail. However, if the way you have taken for yourself is smooth, with no ups and downs, no head-on collision with the enemy, it may become a way that seems right to you, but you may also be in the same direction as the enemy. You are no threat to the enemy because you are heading in the same direction.

Prayer for today:Let Your word be a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.