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Here we have a terrible mess of fleshly choices, and no-one seeking God before man (or woman). Sari and Abram became restless and took it upon themselves to give the Lord a hand in the child He’d promised. But, God had not relented on His promise, and He did not need the help of any of them to help make it so.
If you’ve never been out in the middle of nowhere without light, you probably don’t know the layers and depths of darkness. Thankfully the stars and moon never left their post as the sun hid for the night, but otherwise there was no light to be had unless a lone passerby bobbled his handheld one to and fro as they walked the night’s path.
God had just led the Israelites by way of Moses across the Red Sea, through stilled walls of ocean water, and on dry ground. In quick succession, their celebration turned to desperation. After walking for three days through the dessert they still had found no water; just as they spotted water they learn it was undrinkable. Their complaints to Moses were in no uncertain terms: we’re thirsty, what are we going to drink? Surely they’d remembered how miraculously God had just saved them.
Somethings are cut and dry. This, the God of Truth, should be one of those topics. I wish I could note these verses out of scripture and bid a kind adieu here, but we’re way too involved in the world to simply walk away without shining the light on this truth in our family of God. I can recall several times when I have sided with the world unknowingly. Times when I was ignorant of how God’s Word spoke to the ideal I had in my own heart that stood contrary to what God has to say. Ideas I allowed the world at large, at ordinary, to form as truth but where I was so far from the truth of God. With that intention, to shine a light on God as truth, because He is, I will continue here. This isn’t for
Psalm 107:29