Would you like to be better off?

Do you wish your life was better than it is?  Do you wish you could make better decisions?  Do you wish you knew what to do in a given situation?  Do you ever wish someone had told you the correct action take before making the wrong move? You can.

 

In Deuteronomy 15.15-20 the Israelites are on their journey to the Promised Land which represented a new start, a new life, hope for the people of God.  But, they had never been there before and didn’t have a Garmin handheld GPS unit that they could type in Cairo as their starting point and Jerusalem for their ending point and hit “route.”  The only way they would get where God wanted them to go would be to listen for the voice of God along the way and follow God’s directions.  If they listened and obeyed they would make it to the Promise Land and experience life.  If they neglected the voice of God they would end up settling somewhere else, settling for something less and find themselves in a mess. 

 

A theme that meanders through the pages of Deuteronomy like a creek is that those who listen for God will be better off than those who don’t.  Moses said the following to the Israelites, "...listen to his (God) voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life.." 

 

There's another passage of scripture that sounds very similar.  In Isaiah 55.3 God speaks to the people of Isarel again saying, “Incline your ear and come to me, hear that your soul may live.”

 

This should excite you and give you hope!  Do you know why?  They reveal that God wants to help you get to the Promise Land and remain in the Promise Land instead of watching you drift off course into a self imposed Exile. God wants to tell you what you and I need to know to experience the greatest life ever.  But, in order for that to occur we have to be willing to listen to what God has to say to us.

 

How does a person hear the voice of God?  That will be part of my next blog.

Comments

[Carol]

Good word, Bryan.