What Promised Land Are We Missing?

John 13:17

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

God told Moses to speak to the rock and it would yield water. But because the water did not come quick enough to suit Moses, in anger he struck the rock. Water came forth for the people to drink, but God was not pleased. Because Moses did not trust in God's timing, he tried to make things happen his own way.  In the process, he disobeyed God.  Moses later suffered the consequences of his disobedience.  He was not permitted to enter into the land of Canaan with his people.

What "promised land" are we missing because we are not being perfectly obedient in what God is asking us to do?  God allows us much room for choice in our lives, but He also changes His rewards when we make poor choices. This is especially true if God has laid out a specific path for us to take, but we choose to take a different path.

Moses missed going into the promised land because he was not perfectly obedient to God's direction in his life.  We certainly risk missing our promised land when we are anything less than fully submitted to God's direction in our lives.

Let us draw near to the Lord.  Let us seek earnestly the guidance and instruction of the Holy Spirit.  Let us move without hesitation when the Holy Spirit directs us toward our manifest destiny in Christ.  Let us receive the fullness of the rewards that the Lord has in store for His obedient children.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, we thank You that You direct our ways through the urgings of the Holy Spirit in our lives each day.  Prepare our hearts, Lord, so that we may be alert and obedient to Your calling on our lives.  Teach us how to hear and respond to the Holy Spirit so that we may know the things that You ask of us.  We pray that we will have the strength and wisdom to comply in accordance with Your plans for our lives.  May we receive the fullness of the blessings that You have set aside for us.  We ask all these things in the name of the Lamb without Blemish, Jesus Christ.