FAITH CAPSULE: No one can cut short the course of His designed way without consequences.

Numbers 20                                    

To fear God will keep man in His way. The way of God is the will of God for a man’s life. Any man that goes in the way of God always get to God’s designed destination. What is it that could be compared with getting to where God designed for our life? In the way of God, there is no short cut. No one can cut short the course of His designed way or else one will be cut off short in the journey of life. 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 Philistines although that was near; for God said, ‘Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.’” If the children of Israel had gone through the short cut, they would not have only returned but they probably would have become scattered beyond the chances of coming back together. All the complaint and cry for what they missed and what they would have had was enough evidence that they certainly would have gone back to the way that seemed right to them. Are you taking to the way that seems right to you in your journey of life? It is not how long you have been taking it but rather how long will it take for the wrong way to bring you down?
Proverbs 14:12 states, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” What a warning! Whenever one takes to the way that seems right, getting through to God’s designed destination becomes absolutely impossible. The way that seems right goes through complications, frustration, intimidations and ends up in termination. It is written, “He made Known His way unto Moses, His acts unto the children of Israel.” (Psalm 103:7) Despite Him making known His ways unto Moses, Moses could not step on the Promised Land because he took to his own way of obeying God’s command. One’s title or status in the business of God is not what counts before God but what is of upmost importance is how one stands in His word. Moses failed to hallow Him; he failed to hallow God. Numbers 20:12, Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me, in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” Moses had the map in his hand, but he could not navigate as required. He failed where it matters and he could not enter into the Promise Land. If Moses could fail in that course, who are you to think you are through?

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of constant and consistent obedience.