Day 7 - Wake up and recover your life!
Scripture focus: These words keep ringing in our ears: today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising. For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren't they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn't it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they'd never get where they were going, wasn't he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed. Hebrews 3:14-19 (The Message)
Recall with me how Moses' people longed for freedom – and then whined when it happened. They didn't have the fortitude to listen, really hear God's voice and follow him.
People who live a recovered life are adaptable. They are flexible. They learn how to bend without breaking.
The seeds of an unrecovered life are planted when we focus on our inadequacies and the shortcomings of others.
What were the Israelites thinking? Did they suppose God was a tricky trickster – leading them out of captivity loaded with loot only to let them die in the desert?
Don't we suffer from the same syndrome? Isn't it easier to worry like a modern day Chicken Little about the stability of the sky than it is to actually raise our arms and hold up a small cloud?
I know it's easier to give up and give in than it is to get up and get moving.
But God has shown us a better, although not particularly easier way. If we learn how to listen, and decide to believe, then he will deliver.
Be ye delivered.
Recommended reading: Numbers 19-21
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