FAITH CAPSULE: Are you bargaining against the word of God for your life? 

Numbers 32

The evidence against the command /word of God is a lack of commitment to God.
Commitment to the word of God is the key to arrival in the journey of life.
One with a commitment to the word of God cannot be a victim of the confusion of the wicked world.
One committed to the word of God shall not be a failure in the hand of God. 
In the journey of life, a lack of commitment to the word of God will experience delay or denied not to claim the promise of God. 
One with a commitment to the word of God is giving self to walk before God without ceasing or with self-centered excuses before God.
With a commitment to the living word of God is taking the unfailing route in the journey of life.
Claiming to be a believer without commitment to the word of God is having a religion with no relationship with God.
Does that sound like you?
Are you committed to the word of God, with an understanding of seeking God diligently? 
What does it mean to seek God diligently?
Seeking God with diligence demands walking, sitting, and standing in the word of God with a commitment to the word of God.
Psalm 1:1-2 records, “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law, he meditates day and night.” 
Seeking God with diligence is living obediently to the word of God.
The Israelites did not commit to the word of God in the journey to the promise of God. 
The children of Gad and Reuben wanted to settle for the East side of Jordan against the command to cross the Jordan.
The choice of disobedience to the word of God by the children of Gad and children of Reuben was self-convenience with no commitment to the word of God.
Numbers 32:1-5 records, “Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, saying, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, 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.” 
God promised the land that flows with milk and honey, but the children of Gad and the children of Reuben could not commit, negotiating against the command of God.
Do not negotiate or bargain in the place of the direction of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for you to be committed to His word.