ARE YOU WONDERING IN A DRY WILDERNESS

 Just imagine wondering endlessly in a wilderness. A hot and dry wilderness were nothing will grow. No relief and no hope to arrive in a land full of promise and beauty. As I read the words in Hebrews 3, my mind goes to the patchy grass we have due to a dry summer. Yet, the blossoms in my flower bed are a joy to see. The difference between my lawn and my flowerbed is that one is given life with care and watering while the other receives no care. Our hearts and souls are no different. In order to grow, we need to be fed. 

What are we feeding into our hearts and minds? As I look around, I wonder if we are living in a spiritual dry season following after the ways of the world. Is this the reason we have leaders who don't know anything about God and faith? Are we wondering in a dry wilderness with no hope?  Are we in a dry season because we place our hope in a man and not faith in God? 

I find this interesting that words written two thousand years ago speaks truth to us today. Satan continues to deceive us. Satan roams the world using every tool he has to entice us into his wilderness of anger, confusion, hate, misery, dreams of riches, lies, self=centeredness, and despair. Yet, many of us choose to stay in this wilderness of confusion instead of opening our eyes to truth. Yes, God gives you the choice of how you live. So, what choice will you make? 

Open your Bible. Seek God. Choose the promises of God and not the dry wilderness leading to eternal agony. Below is Hebrews 3. (NAS)

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus;  He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.  For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the boast of our hope.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,

“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,

DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME,

AS ON THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,

WHERE YOUR FATHERS PUT ME TO THE TEST,

AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.

 “THEREFORE, I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION,

AND SAID, THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART,

AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS’.

AS I SWORE IN MY ANGER,

‘THEY CERTAINLY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST.’”

 

Take care, brothers and sisters, that there will not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

 But encourage one another every day, as long as it is still called “today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we keep the beginning of our commitment firm until the end, while it is said,

“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME.” 

For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?  And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?  And so, we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.

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