Faithful Capsule: It is good to be comfortable but not to substitute God’s promise.

Numbers 32

Giving self to world’s comfort over giving self for commitment to God will deny or derail man from God’s plan. In the journey of life, desire for living comfortable is encased in commitment to God. However, when man make the choice of world comfort ahead of commitment to God’s direction in the journey of life, one is set not to arrive at the center of God’s divine agenda. God, in His goodness and mercy brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years with plan to settle them in the Promised Land. It is written, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8) God wanted to place the Israelites from bondage to abundance when He promised them a land which flows with milk and honey. In the place of giving self to commitment of God’s promise, the children of Gad and of Reuben turned to comfort at the East of Jordan. The children of Gad and of Reuben had a very great multitude of livestock and that prompted a request for a settlement in the East of Jordan which was a place for livestock, a place limited to milk not milk and honey as promised by God.
Children of Gad and of Reuben’s lack of understanding of God’s plan prompted choice to wander from the way of God’s promise for land that flows with milk and honey. Are you attempting to wander from the way of understanding gained from the word of God? Proverbs 21:16 admonished, “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben approached Moses and stated their desire, “…the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel,is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.’ Therefore they said, ‘If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.’” (Numbers 32:4-5) It is clear that where there is livestock milk will flow, but not honey. God promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but the children of Gad and of Reuben attempted to settle for their own comfort land. The land which flowed with milk was a comfortable choice over milk and honey. It is good to be comfortable but not at the expense of God’s command which demands our commitment. Placing our comfort above God’s command is a direct avenue to becoming insensitive to the move of the Spirit of God. Spiritual insensitivity will reduce and not increase a believer. Are you operating the mind of the children of Gad and Reuben as you engage your journey to the Promised Land? Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God’s command.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from lack of understanding commitment to God’s promise for your life.