Go Where?
When the Israelites went in to spy on the land God promised them, most of the spies came back with a negative report. They said things like, “the people living there are very powerful. The cities are very large and strongly defended. We saw giants in the land” (Numbers 13:28). They went on to say, “We cannot fight these people! they are much stronger than we are. They are strong enough to easily defeat anyone who goes there” (Numbers 13:31, 32).
They knew that they knew that they knew that this land was promised to them by God. They had been with God as He led them through the wilderness and yet, when they got to the promised land, they saw with eyes of fear. They said things like, “Let’s choose another leader and go back to Egypt” (Numbers 14:4). Wait! What????!!! Go back to Egypt?!?!?!
Egypt was the place where they were in bondage, in slavery. Did they forget how they cried out to the Lord to save them from this bondage and how the Lord answered them? Yet, because they were afraid to go into the place, the season, the position God said they should go into, they wanted to go backwards. They wanted to go to the place where they were comfortable, where they knew what would happen, where they were complacent.
Are you looking back at the places, seasons, positions you have been through and wanting to go back because you knew what to expect, you were comfortable, you were complacent in that place? Remember how you asked God to move you out of this season, that place, that position? Why would you want to go back to that?
God thinks about you and He has plans for you (Jeremiah 29:11). They are thoughts of good and not of evil to give you hope and a good future. God’s definition is not our definition of good. Remember His ways and His thoughts are greater than ours. So His good is our awesome, spectacular. Why would you want to not go the way God has planned for you? When He plans for us, He makes a way for us. We don’t have to be concerned about how we will do what God has for us. It is His concern. We just have to go where He say go and do what He say do.
Just a Thought