This post is going to be short and sweet because I’ve though long and hard about a humorous personal story to add to it. Nothing seemed to hit the mark so I’m just going to go without one.
Recently I was reading Numbers 27 where God shows Moses the promised land (that he doesn’t get to go to). Verses 12-14 say,
“One day the Lord said to Moses, “Climb one of the mountains east of the river, and look out over the land I have given the people of Israel. After you have seen it, you will die like your brother, Aaron, for you both rebelled against my instructions in the wilderness of Zin. When the people of Israel rebelled, you failed to demonstrate my holiness to them at the waters.”
God tells Moses to climb up a mountain to show him every thing he is going to miss out on. And that after he does that he will die. That’s pretty brutal. After all that Moses had endured leading the Israelites out of Egypt and to that point, it had to hit him pretty hard.
It got me thinking, what if God did that to me? What if God opened up my eyes and showed me everything my sin had caused me to miss out on? I don’t want to even begin to think about that, because I’m sure it’s a lot.
Not that fear of missing out is a great reason/motivator to not sin, but knowing I’m missing out on the best God has for me isn’t a good feeling. That isn’t really it though. It’s knowing that I’m not on God’s perfect path for me. Sure God still loved Moses and miraculously took care of him while he wandered in the desert, but God had so much more better for him. He should have been in the promised land. I don’t want to live my life wandering around when God has an abundance waiting for me.
until next time…