Do NOT Enter!
Come On In!
Stay AWAY! There’s nothing to see here!
Come and see as I see!
The voice you listen to, may determine whether you wander in the wilderness for 40 years, or enter the promise land.
Dude. Like, um…
God actually is good.
You, like, don’t need to be afraid.
Ever get that feeling, when things are starting to turn around for the better, that everything is suddenly going to fall apart? That you will be found out? In the wrong? That you won’t have what it takes? That it’s all going to fall to pieces? That it was just a dream?
I’ve been reading Deuteronomy 8-11 lately. It’s all about entering the promise land.
I believe I am about to cross a Jordan river in my life.
I am about to enter a season of receiving from God. I am about to receive promises, some of which He gave me years ago.
I know it’s coming.
And yet…
At times it’s hard to shake this ugly foreboding feeling.
The drumbeats of doom are simply not from God.
Does this sound like God?
“It’s all going to fall apart.”
“There’s not enough time.”
“You don’t deserve this.”
or, does THIS sound like God?
“You’re my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.”
“I am able to do far more abundantly than all you could ask or even imagine.”
“Take rest, be encouraged. Keep walking. You’re doing great!”
Now THAT sounds more like a Loving Father,
a Mighty Savior,
a Blessed Comforter!
I’m trading in the drumbeats of doom for a song in my heart.
If death is ever an option, choose life.
“For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will lack nothing…”
“… a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, a land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.”
“And if you indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.”
“For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
