FAITH CAPSULE: Living for God is the way to the expected end.

Exodus 13

It is written, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12) The only way that seems right is to live by His word. Jesus is the word of God. He wants to take man to an expected end which is a Promised Land that was purchased by His blood shed on Calvary. Living for God is the way to the expected end. It is better to be lost and found than to be found and then get lost. Jesus did not find man for untimely death or failure. The God that found and brought the children of Israel out of bondage did not mean for them not to get to the Promised Land. For one to be free from bondage is incomplete until one’s arrival to the Promised Land is realized. Many ways lead to the Promised Land, but the only way that will enable one to get there is the way of the wilderness.
The way that leads to Promised Land is the choice of the One who called all. Just as the Israelites went through the wilderness to the Promised Land, all shall go through the wilderness. Any other way outside of wilderness is the way back to Egypt.
The way of the wilderness is a way of no return. Exodus 13:17 recorded, “Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by the way of the land 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.’”
The way that seems right to man is a short distance. However, it is important to realize that a short–cut will always cut man short from getting to God’s Promised Land. The purpose of the wilderness way is for one not to return, but to keep one going. It is the way that God has put everything in place for one to travel within a reasonable amount of time. It is a way where one is going to be equipped on how to live and inherit where He is taking one to.
Are you living life for God to keep on the way to God’s Promised Land?
Getting to the Promised Land is the reason why Jesus came and went on the Calvary. On the way to the Promised Land, one will bump heads with the enemy because the enemy does not want to see anyone prevail. However, if the way you have taken for yourself is smooth, with no ups and downs, no head-on collision with the enemy, it may become a way that seems right to you, but you may also be in the same direction as the enemy. You are no threat to the enemy because you are heading in the same direction. Living for God marks man to be threat because the truth of God is threatening to the enemy. Man, with focus on God shall overcome in all.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to teach and lead you in all your going from today.