Hebrews 3:14-19
Is it a sin to disbelieve God?
Verses 17-19 seem to indicate so. The people sinned, and God was angry with them because they sinned, and it was their unbelief that kept them from His reward.
God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt through powerful miracles, and He sustained them in the desert with powerful miracles. He protected them from harm with powerful miracles.
Yet, when things got difficult for them, they chose to doubt Him.
God isn't working miracles in my life of the same magnitude as He did for the sons of Moses, but He is working in my life. I don't rail against God and defy Him as absolutely as did the children of Israel, but I do defy Him.
What is my disbelief? Where am I rebelling against God in my life? At what point, or in which struggle, do I disregard God and choose not to trust Him?
There are those places, aren't there? We live our lives and try to live them for God, but we fall short of our own expectations so often--and our expectations are so bland compared to what God has in store for us! How can He continue to put up with a loser like me?
It's funny, but God loves us a lot more than we give Him credit for...
You know, God has a lot more influence on your life than you may give Him credit for. He did make you, after all. Is it so hard to believe that He can mold your heart to be more what He wants you to be?
We let ourselves down in so many ways, but our letdowns are not necessarily God's. God does not expect us to perform our lives without flaw--if He wanted people that could do that, He would've made us that way. God wanted people that could dream better than they could perform, He wanted people that wanted more of themselves than they could accomplish.
God wanted people that were always striving to be better than they are, and that's exactly what He made.
Don't feel guilty when you let yourself down! Take it for what it is: an opportunity to improve. Take the chance to pray about it. Is this really what God wants me to be doing? Is this the best way I can serve God in my life? --and if it is, then strive to do it better next time.
Sometimes we fall down because we're human and we mess up the things God plans for us. Sometimes we fall down because our plans are human.
God loves us when we fail Him, but He wants us to keep striving and to never give up on our faith! He's there for us when it's easy and when it's hard, so we keep looking to Him for strength and for guidance in our lives.
Verses 17-19 seem to indicate so. The people sinned, and God was angry with them because they sinned, and it was their unbelief that kept them from His reward.
God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt through powerful miracles, and He sustained them in the desert with powerful miracles. He protected them from harm with powerful miracles.
Yet, when things got difficult for them, they chose to doubt Him.
God isn't working miracles in my life of the same magnitude as He did for the sons of Moses, but He is working in my life. I don't rail against God and defy Him as absolutely as did the children of Israel, but I do defy Him.
What is my disbelief? Where am I rebelling against God in my life? At what point, or in which struggle, do I disregard God and choose not to trust Him?
There are those places, aren't there? We live our lives and try to live them for God, but we fall short of our own expectations so often--and our expectations are so bland compared to what God has in store for us! How can He continue to put up with a loser like me?
It's funny, but God loves us a lot more than we give Him credit for...
You know, God has a lot more influence on your life than you may give Him credit for. He did make you, after all. Is it so hard to believe that He can mold your heart to be more what He wants you to be?
We let ourselves down in so many ways, but our letdowns are not necessarily God's. God does not expect us to perform our lives without flaw--if He wanted people that could do that, He would've made us that way. God wanted people that could dream better than they could perform, He wanted people that wanted more of themselves than they could accomplish.
God wanted people that were always striving to be better than they are, and that's exactly what He made.
Don't feel guilty when you let yourself down! Take it for what it is: an opportunity to improve. Take the chance to pray about it. Is this really what God wants me to be doing? Is this the best way I can serve God in my life? --and if it is, then strive to do it better next time.
Sometimes we fall down because we're human and we mess up the things God plans for us. Sometimes we fall down because our plans are human.
God loves us when we fail Him, but He wants us to keep striving and to never give up on our faith! He's there for us when it's easy and when it's hard, so we keep looking to Him for strength and for guidance in our lives.
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