6 The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that I swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.”
Have you stayed long enough where you are at now? Is it time to move on? Is it time to take a faithful step? Is it time to act?
The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. They were busy organizing, and planning, and setting down the Law. But they were also busy being scared. And they might still be there in the wilderness acting busy but really being scared, if God had not said, “It’s time; you’ve been here long enough. You gotta go.”
We can plan for 40 years. We can can plan for 40 more. Still, we may never feel like we’re really ready. But then God says, “Go.” And we get up, and we head out, and we trust that God is going with us . . .
NOTE: Tomorrow’s Lesson will be from Deuteronomy chapters 3 and 4.
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