Wholeheartedly

Wholeheartedly

Scripture

Numbers 32: 7, 9-11

“Why do you discourage the Israelites from going over into the land the Lord has given them? After they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them. The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who come up out of Egypt will see the land.

Observation

The Lord’s plans for what he was giving the Israelites were being ruined by them! They saw holes in things, they grumbled and complained – they were looking at only from the natural. God had the land picked out, he knew how they would obtain it and it was called “the promised land” God gives great things to his people; but they were rejected his gift at this time – it says they didn’t follow wholeheartedly.

Application

God is giving me things – do look for the faults, for the holes that l can see? What view do l look at it with? Do l look only in the natural and forget about the spiritual? Do l look at it think it can’t be done by humans? Forgetting with God everything is possible. God gives us gifts we need to take them two hands, wholeheartedly and follow Him. Trust Him. Obey Him.

Prayer

Dear Lord, help me to change my mindset, my thoughts the things of thing not of you. I want to grab what you are giving me and use it the way you intend me to and doing it wholeheartedly. In Jesus name Amen.

Candice Pleiter