When YHVH says to go, to we stay put and vice versa?

Numbers 14:40–45, We … will go up. Now the Israelites prepare to go and to possess Canaan in their own strength and against the will of YHVH.

Matthew Henry discusses this showing how the carnal mind is enmity against YHVH, for when he bade them to go, they would not, and when he forbade them, that is when they decided to go. They distrusted his strength, and trusted in their own. What was the result of their expedition? Failure!

Let us take warning from the fate of Israel, lest we perish after the same example of unbelief. Let us go forth, depending on YHVH’s mercy, power, promise and truth. Do you think that the Israelites were rationally aware of what they were doing? We can easily look back in 20/20 hindsight and see the folly of their ways, but let us pray that YHVH gives us the discernment to see when each of us is guilty of the same in our own lives.

 

1 thought on “When YHVH says to go, to we stay put and vice versa?

  1. My problem is being still and waiting on Him. When Yah reveals to me a path, but tells me to wait I tend to find the waiting part difficult. The times I do run ahead I find myself alone and always end up turning around and going back to say “Ok, Father. I get it. I will wait.”

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