COME SIT WITH ME !

COME SIT WITH ME ! Was God grieved with the Israelites because they expected too much from Him ? No. Was He grieved with them because instead of worrying and working hard trying to meet their own needs and fight their own battles, they expected Him to take care of them ? No. Was he aggravated because they wanted too much land ? No. He was grieved with them because they wouldn't take what He offered. He offered them a life of divine rest in the Promise Land and they kept saying, "we can't do it. In other words, they would not agree with God. There are big giants in that land. We're just a little grasshopper. They'll wipe us out !" The Israelites hadn't even seen those giants. They'd just believed the evil report the unbelieving ten spies brought back. God has already said, "I've giving you the land." That should have been enough for them. They should have been able to rest in God's promise---WORDS: giants are no giants. But they hardened their hearts [soul]. They refused to believe THE BLESSING of God was powerful enough to give them victory, so they died in the wilderness. We can learn a valuable lesson from their mistake because God is saying the same thing to us today. He is saying, "You're BLESSED ! Rest in that fact and step into the land of victory I have promised you." He is saying, "Take heed brethren or sister, lest there be in any of you and evil heart [soul] of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; while it is said, Today if you will hear his voice (Words), harden not your hearts, as is the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke; howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved with 40 years ? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose caucuses failed in the wilderness ? And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not ? We see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (versus 12-19). That kind of unbelief that keeps us out of God's rest creeps up on us through fear--filled religious words like, "sometimes God answers prayer, and sometimes He doesn't. You just never know what God is going to do." That kind of junk doesn't come from the Bible ! It comes from people who put more faith in their experiences than in God's Word. They have failed for some reason to lay hold of his That promises in their own lives and, like the Israelites spies, bring back evil reports to discourage the hearts of other people. If you believe those reports, you're doing the same thing the wilderness- wandering Israelites did--- hardening your hearts [souls] in unbelief. In other words you will not take God at His Word. Maybe you have been taught are told that God doesn't work that way anymore; if you have that is the biggest lie from the under belly of the underworld hell !I realize that's not what you mean to do, but you're doing it, whether you mean to or not if you don't believe what God has says. You're letting unbelief stop you from entering your promised land, and in the mind of God that's sin. Unbelief is as the sin of witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23) it is disobedience Two the God of the Bible!