Dear Family,
Today is Friday, May 1, 2020, Day 20 in our Counting toward Pentecost. This is the 6th day of Week 3.
It is usually much more easy to see our mistakes in hindsight. There is an old saying, “Too soon old, too late smart!”
How privileged we are to have common mistakes, even horrendous sins, written down for us in advance so we can avoid them. As we all know, the story of Israel in the wilderness is not just a fairy tale. It was a real life and death struggle for those individuals. Let us not take their struggles for granted. We will meet them in the resurrection. And, for many of us, they are blood relatives.
From our vantage point, it might be very easy to judge them harshly. True, they sinned, and they sinned BIG! However, the same forces we face daily were there with them in the wilderness.
I am speaking of the influences of Satan, the enemy of God and His people. Without the Spirit of God, they easily succumbed. Without the Spirit of God, it is inevitable that we will succumb also, given enough time and temptations. The answer for us is very close at hand. God is liberal and openhanded toward each of us. He has already invested His most precious treasure – Jesus. He will withhold nothing that is good for us (1 Peter 1:3 and Romans 8:35-39). He will give the Holy Spirit to His children that ask Him.
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him?
Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
Because we are still in human flesh, Dear Family, we will continue to make mistakes and sins even with God’s Spirit. Yet, a righteous man gets up, repents, receives forgiveness, and moves on with joy and thankfulness for God’s incredible grace. Through the sacrifice and love of the Godhead we are already more than conquerors through Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.Let us be thankful for the price paid to give us advance warning of common temptations. Let us move forward as victors. God bless you with spiritual vision and His supernatural strength to find His complete will in your life and do it!
Ben Faulkner
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