FAITH MAIL: To serve God wrongly comes with a costly consequence.
Numbers 14
A believer of God must serve and worship God continually. As an acclaimed believer, are you serving God with all your heart, with all soul, and with all strength?
To serve God wrongly comes with a costly consequence. Uzzah served God with good intention but lost his life. It was Uzzah’s attempt to keep the Ark of God from falling that took away his life.
Uzzah’s act of serving was against the Word of God that forbids anyone from touching the Ark of God. The Bible recorded, “Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God.” (2 Samuel 6:7) Uzzah, in the position to serve, but failed to serve wholeheartedly; violated God’s command and was terminated.
Remember the story of the Israelites when they were coming out of Egypt – where they had been in bondage for over four hundred years – and God required them to serve Him; however, their service was incomplete. The failure of the Israelites in time of challenges was their faith failure to serve God diligently. In their challenging times, they confessed negatives by murmuring against God.
God responded to Israelites’ faith-failure through Moses as stated: “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:28-30)
Failure to serve God with the whole heart is the evidence of not following Him fully.
As a result of not following God fully, every Israelite that left Egypt above the age of twenty failed to complete their journey to the Promised Land. Are you serving God fully to avoid a failure not to arrive at God’s promise? Many are committed believers such as the prayer intercessors, choir leaders, ushers, Sunday school teachers, deacons, and elders do not follower Christ fully. Jesus responded to uncommitted believers as stated: “Then Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” (Matthew 16:24) Are you a committed believer that is following Jesus fully?
Are you a committed believer with the deception before a man but not able to deceive God?
Is there any way for you to hear it better so that you can understand and know that in serving Him, you must follow Him fully? Jesus said, “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me: and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, he My Father will honor.” (John 12:26) Give your ear to hear God’s word!
Prayer for today: Ask God to order your mind not to speak negative but positive in His direction.