FAITH CAPSULE: Testimonies of God are the fuel of transportation through the wilderness journey.

Numbers 14
 
Jesus went through the wilderness because He knew that we would have to go through it. Jesus’ going through the wilderness was to leave behind a foot step for each and every one that has answered His call to follow through. The same wild beasts are still there, but the good news is that the ministering angels that saw Jesus through are also available to see us through.
Testimonies of God are the fuel of transportation through the wilderness journey. A believer that constantly engages testimonies of God by constantly meditating on them shall not be denied from getting through to the expected end. Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,who seek Him with the whole heart!”Testimonies of God are the words of God and it is impossible for anyone that meditates on it not to keep it. Also, one that keeps His testimonies will serve Him indeed and in truth. The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years. At times it is good to have a wilderness journey, but it is not good to live in the wilderness. The generation that came out of Egypt did not only journey in the wilderness, but they wandered around until the wilderness passed them unto death and they were unable to see or step on the Promised Land. The children of Israel did not just become wanderers in the wilderness by accident, but their acts of complaining against God trapped them in the wilderness.
During their journey, complementing God for His awesome work instead of complaining could have done them good. The act of complaining is the act of rebellion that often leads to termination. Due to their incessant complaining against what God was doing in their life, God responded in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”God promised to take them to the Promised Land. He showed them great and mighty signs in Egypt, and on their way out of Egypt. The signs and wonders of God are His testimonies. God’s testimonies are more than enough to transport believers to the Promised Land. Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies? The testimonies of God are the evidence of what He can do and they also provoke our faith in Him.
 
Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding of God’s statutes and the way of His precepts, that enables meditating on His wonderful works.