Promise Land/New Home
This morning my OT bible reading was in Numbers chapters 13-16. You may remember. God selected 12 leaders to go into the Promise Land to spy it out. They returned with the report it is a Land flowing with milk and honey, but there are giants in the land. Only Joshua and Caleb reported We are well able to take it.
The Jews were in the wilderness. They had just received a mighty deliverance at the hand of God from the Egyptians at the Red Sea. Just a little further back they came out of Egypt carrying the wealth of Egypt with them. How easy it is to see the Giants and Forget the past deliverance's. If we let it the voice of fear can drown out the voice of faith. Faith and Fear are opposite sides of the same coin. That coin is the spiritual force when applied by speaking brings about the good we desire or the evil which we fear. The spies gave voice to their fears saying "we are like grasshoppers in their sight and ours" Joshua and Caleb said "we are well able to take the land" We birth the thoughts be saying them. We reinforce them by repeating them. The fear is not the force. The force is in agreeing with the fear by saying it. We all occasionally have fear. The question is do we take hold of it? Do we embrace it by saying it? The night before last I woke up in a near panic attack. My head was swirling with doubt and unbelief. My friends, I didn't take or buy into any of it. While I was still sweating bullets of fear I open up my bible (the online audio bible) and began listening to my bible chapters for the day. I'm not ashamed to say I fell back asleep listening to Alexander Scorby.
We are in the wilderness, but we see the Promise Land. I have read that we need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I understand what that means now. Even as we commit by faith to take the Promise Land like Joshua and Caleb we know that when we have it there will be a new Promise Land to take. I am going to take my Promise Land, and when I have I'm going to ask God for a new vision and another Promise Land.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Parable of the two sowers
Two sowers went out to sow. They planned on staying all day in the field. They each carried their seeds and water to drink. One sower was wiser than the other sower, and he took along his lunch. The field wasn’t close to a McDonalds. They both walked up and down the rows all morning long sowing their corn seeds. It was a hot day and they often stopped for water. At lunch they both sat down. The wise sower took out in sandwich and happily ate it. He drank his water and took a nap. The not so smart sower realized he didn’t have lunch with him, and he was faint with hunger. As his friend dozed off for his nap he got the idea of making pop corn. Great idea he thought. All along telling himself how clever he was in solving his problem. He made a little fire and popped his corn in an empty can. So while his fellow sower slept he popped then ate. After a while his friend woke up rested and said “Let’s go back to work.” They both got up to return to work. The wiser sower was rested and ready for work. The other sower wasn’t rested and was just barely fed. After a short time of working about break time the hungry sower ran out of seeds to sow, and so He went home early. The wise sower stayed and worked all day. They both worked hard all summer in their fields. They hoed and irrigated they pulled weeds they both fussed over their fields. When harvest time came the wise farmers field was full and running over. He picked and picked and picked. The not so wise farmer couldn’t figure out why he didn’t harvest as much as the wise farmer. He finally got around to praying. God why didn’t you bless me like you did my friend? I worked just as hard. You promised to bless me and you didn’t. Why? He was finally quiet before God. “YOU ATE YOUR SEEDS”
Plan ahead. Don’t let your appetites get the best of you.
Two sowers went out to sow. They planned on staying all day in the field. They each carried their seeds and water to drink. One sower was wiser than the other sower, and he took along his lunch. The field wasn’t close to a McDonalds. They both walked up and down the rows all morning long sowing their corn seeds. It was a hot day and they often stopped for water. At lunch they both sat down. The wise sower took out in sandwich and happily ate it. He drank his water and took a nap. The not so smart sower realized he didn’t have lunch with him, and he was faint with hunger. As his friend dozed off for his nap he got the idea of making pop corn. Great idea he thought. All along telling himself how clever he was in solving his problem. He made a little fire and popped his corn in an empty can. So while his fellow sower slept he popped then ate. After a while his friend woke up rested and said “Let’s go back to work.” They both got up to return to work. The wiser sower was rested and ready for work. The other sower wasn’t rested and was just barely fed. After a short time of working about break time the hungry sower ran out of seeds to sow, and so He went home early. The wise sower stayed and worked all day. They both worked hard all summer in their fields. They hoed and irrigated they pulled weeds they both fussed over their fields. When harvest time came the wise farmers field was full and running over. He picked and picked and picked. The not so wise farmer couldn’t figure out why he didn’t harvest as much as the wise farmer. He finally got around to praying. God why didn’t you bless me like you did my friend? I worked just as hard. You promised to bless me and you didn’t. Why? He was finally quiet before God. “YOU ATE YOUR SEEDS”
Plan ahead. Don’t let your appetites get the best of you.
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