FAITH CAPSULE: keeping of testimonies of God.
Numbers 14
Psalmist testified, “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God in Him I will trust.” (Psalm 91:2)
What will you say of the Lord? Months after months God continues to be faithful to you according to His word.
Is complaining your testimony about God? What are your testimonies? Are you keeping the testimonies of God? The testimonies of God are worthy of mediation. The Psalmist knew what he was saying by virtue of his confessions in Psalm 119:2, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Psalm 119:14, I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches, Psalm 119: 24, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors, Psalm 119:46, I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Keeping the testimonies of God will keep one in going with the blessing of God; it will be the source of consistent joy. Without constant keeping of the testimonies of God through meditation, one will cease from going further in every area of life. The children of Israel cease from meditating God’s testimonies and they could not go further. In their journey, complain took over instead of complementing God for what he did in their life. A journey of eleven days went on and on for forty years.
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. Are you experiencing a time of wandering around in a wilderness situation? The generation that came out of Egypt did not only journey in the wilderness, but live and wandered in their in the wilderness. Also, they were not able to see or step on the Promised Land but passed away wandering in the wilderness. It was their acts of complaints against God that trapped them in the wilderness. Acts of complaining are acts of self-destruction, and termination. Are you complaining about your situation? Due to the children of Israel’s persistent 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.
His testimonies are more than enough to transport one to the Promised Land. Are you constantly meditating on His testimonies?
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to be complaining vessel.