Walking on Dry Land

As i am coming to the end of spring break i am learning more and more that God has left us the Holy Spirit to magnify Jesus Christ and minimize us. You see, the more of us in us the more likely we are to live against God's Will. Why is that? Well, for starters we aren't by nature God seeking until Christ lives in us. So I feel that if I am filled with my own human habits, i cannot live up to my full potential. It is only when i am filled with Christ that i will reach my full potential. I have come to an understanding that God has a deep desire to carry us through our trials.

When you read the Pentateuch, first five books of the bible, also known as the "Books Of the Law", you experience a God with the basic intention of Caring for His people. Though they do not respond to God's will, causing them to suffer a lot, He still keeps them out of harms way and delivers them from all enemies.

Exodus, which simply represents the Exit from Egypt or departure, is known mostly because of a miracle that God does when he opens the red sea, allowing the people of Israel to cross it without any harm.

God, being omnipotent and omnipresent, knew that the people of Israel would enter into 4 decades of sin, lack of trust, and disobedience however He still took them to the other side of the sea. I begin to wonder, why God does things like this. But i realize His spirit desires much more than what we do for Him. In other words, God hopes that we step out of our nature and into His nature. This can only happen when we truly live in His spirit and His spirit in us.

God took the people to the other side and in that same way He takes us places that we don't deserve. If you are like me you have probably prayed and asked God for peace and He has given it to you. If you are anything like me, you probably didnt deserve His peace but he gave it to you anyway. God continues to carry us across the sea but will we return the favor the same way the people of Israel did? I am convinced that many of us sometimes receive God's help, yet fail to acknowledge it in the long run and live as if we weren't grateful for His help.

The people of Israel were taken to the other side, yes! But God, when he saw that they did not serve Him and honor Him, made sure that they did not reach the next level, promise land, for 40 years. According to many theologians, this voyage was suppose to only take around 11 days but instead took 40 years.

God wants to take you to the next level, but sometimes you aren't ready and you elongate the time in which you accomplish His will. I strongly believe that all of you reading have been taken to the other side and have walked on dry land. What did you do after that? Have you been walking in circles in the wilderness for 40 years? Is it time that you return to God's original plan and not yours?

James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Maybe you do not see God moving in your life as much anymore because you ask for things to happen in your life for your will and not His. God is ready to point you in the right direction. He is ready to rise up a Joshua in YOU. But its all up to you.

We sometimes fail to see God because we aren't looking at God, only an image of Him that we have created. The best way to know Him is to talk to Him. He has also left a 66 book love letter for YOU. Read it, talk to Him, experience Him.