Devotional:Remember God's Provision and Promises

Remember God's Provision and Promises

Part 3 on Discouragement

By Marsha Iddings

 

Numbers 21:4-5 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

 

Here we see the Children of Israel becoming discouraged because the way was difficult.  They have forgotten God's promises to provide for them and to bring them into the Promised Land.  They have also forgotten how God provided for them in the past.  He parted the Red Sea for them.  He drowned the pursuing Egyptians in the Red Sea.  He provided water from the rock and manna and quail to eat.

 

When I get discouraged I have usually forgotten how God has provided for me in the past.  I have also forgotten His promises to care for me now and in the future.  Sometimes I am dissatisfied with how He is taking care of me in the present, because it's not how I expected to be taken care of.  Many times God provides what I need but not what I want.  I think this was the problem with the Children of Israel.  They got what they needed but not what they wanted and they became discouraged.

 

When discouragement sets in, look back and see how God has provided for you in the past, then look forward into His Word and rest in God's promises for the future.

 

Dear Father, We are often near-sighted when it comes to Your promises and we are blind when it comes to seeing Your past provisions.  Give us sight that we might see these things.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

 

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