SHUN UNBELIEF, DON’T LIMIT GOD

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God delivered the nation of Israel out of Egypt with an awesome display of power and glory, Psalm 105 summarizes the entire account beautifully, here is just a part of it:

³⁷ He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴² For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. – Psalm 105:37-45 KJV

It was God’s plan and desire to bring them all into the land He had promised Abraham, they were His covenant people, but as we all know that is not what happened. It wasn’t God’s will that an entire generation of those that came out of Egypt should perish in the desert, He did not bring them out of slavery to annihilate them in the wilderness,  but sadly, an entire generation didn’t make it to the promised land.

It wasn’t God’s fault, it wasn’t God’s inability to bring them into the land He had promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, no they perished because of their unbelief, nothing else. That’s how powerful  – in the negative sense, unbelief is .

⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. – Jude 1:5 NIV

Our Lord was often amazed, not positively, by the the unbelief He encountered even from His disciples, remember the time He went to His own town and couldn't do many miracles there because of their unbelief? You see beloved, unbelief is essentially calling God a liar, believe me, you don’t want to be guilty of that crime, I know I don’t! Unbelief limits God, it ties His hands so to speak, the Israelites were guilty of doing just that and it cost them an extra 40 years of wandering in the desert.

⁴¹ Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel. – Psalm 78:41 NKJV   

God always means what He says and says what He means, He is truth personified, there is no falsehood in Him, all His promises to us are yes and amen in and through Christ. We have no reason whatsoever to doubt God’s Word, it is the enemy of our souls who is constantly trying to get us to doubt God’s promises, if not His promises then His willingness to grant them to US.

You know what, if the enemy can’t get you to doubt God’s promises to you, He’ll get you to disqualify yourself from receiving from God by pointing you to your failures and shortcoming insinuating that because of them you do not

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qualify to receive anything from God. Beloved, pay that old serpent no attention, you have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God, you are the righteousness of God in Christ, all the promises of God are yours not because of your performance but because of Christ’s performance. He did all the work, you repeat the benefits, that the New Covenant in a nutshell.

God calls unbelief evil, so beloved we will do well  to shun all manner of evil, beginning with unbelief. The Lord's command to us today saying: "Do not be unbelieving, but believing" - John 20:27 

Let's obey Him by choosing to believe God today!