When the Hebrew nation was redeemed from Egypt the people saw the Lord's hand, saving them from the bondage that had enslaved them, yet even in their deliverance they looked back!
They had the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day to show them that their loving God was with them as they traversed the wilderness and yet that was not good enough for them, they murmured and complained.
The Lord brought them to the edge of the Promised Land and instead of praising God for His continued providence in providing the promise they had disbelief and sent spies into the land and decided that the God who had delivered them was not big enough to complete His promise…they relied on their own limited vision and fear even though they had experienced God's powerful hand upon them in their wanderings.
What love He has for us…yet we would rather follow our own limited vision and live lives that are incomplete in Him…placing Him in a box of our own making…the Romans' placed Jesus in a tomb but we place Him in a box…the creator off all things, the most powerful, omniscient loving Lord and we live our lives limiting who He is and what He can do.
Because of His great sacrifice we have the most amazing privilege and honor and opportunity to have a relationship with the Almighty God…to walk and talk with Him…to sit at His feet and enjoy His presence…the veil was torn from top to bottom so we could enjoy His intimate loving relationship that He desires of and for His children.
He calls us to cultivate our relationship with Him, to draw close to Him, to abide in Him, to see and experience Him as our heavenly Father and faithful friend.
He was given us His Holy Spirit to live within us, how amazing is it that our Lord should want to share a part of Himself with us…and what do we do with that? For the most part we ignore the Spirit of God living in us, we keep Him on the edges for times of need, we overlook and even dispel His power to work in us and through us, to change us, to conform us into Christ's image, to do the works that the Lord has planned for us to do, to be different from the world - set apart for His glory. And why do we do this? I believe that it is because we are comfortable living in the physical but afraid of walking in the spiritual!
