FAITH CAPSULE: God demands from all to obey fully…no exception.

Numbers 12

God’s commands demands a serious attention which will enable man to avoid violating any of His command. Without doubt, he who is devoid of wisdom despises His command and ends up as a fool. Violation of His command will expose man to death and sometimes stagnation in every area of living life. However, the bottom line of it is made clear in Proverbs 13:13, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Are you consciously or unconsciously engaging any act of disobedience to His word? Obeying or disobeying the commands of God is a serious matter and it demands serious attention. Regardless of whom you are or the kind of title you are answering to inside or outside of the church, God demands from all to obey fully…no exception.
It is written, “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”(Genesis 2:16-17) Disobeying God is an open avenue to death. God did not spare Adam and Eve from reaping the fruit of disobedience when death became the consequence of disobedience. Besides dying from the consequence of disobedience, stagnation is possibly another cause of disobedience.
When Moses was leading the Israelites, ““Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. So they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it…” (Numbers 12:1-3)The dissension of Aaron and Miriam was an indirect act of disobedience to God who called Moses. The act of disobedience caused them delay and stagnation on the course of their journey when, “Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.” Just because of Miriam the whole entourage suffered stagnation.
With God, there is mercy which never runs out. However, with sin comes consequence. God will forgive where there is repentance but consequence remains regardless of repentance. David, a man after God’s own heart did not escape from the consequence of his sinful act when he set up Uriah for untimely death after having taken and lay with his wife Bathsheba. It is written, “…the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.” (2 Samuel 11:26) Among the consequences of David’s sin was that the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be constantly obedient and not become a victim of sin.