A Morning Devotion

 

A  Devotion
From Bro. Bob
Deuteronomy 34:1-4
Disobedience Produces Lifetime Limitations

Dear Family of God;

Have you ever caught yourself being upset with God over the actions of God towards Moses?   I have to say I have and I have heard a lot more voice the same opinion.   Here we have Moses, a true servant of God, taking the grumblings of the Jewish people for forty years and putting up with their wanderings due to disobedience. Now at the end of the march, just the time they were to experience the true Promises of God to their families, and something Moses did many years earlier prohibits him from going into the promised land. Now this does not have to do with any part of salvation, but it does have to do with the ramifications of disobedience to God and the rules of life when it comes to God's plan B,C,D,etc.

Think on a man who has given his life so that a new hospital, church. home or factory was going to be built and then the day before the open house to this new facility the man is arrested for cheating on his income tax forty years earlier and taken to jail. What a reward for a life of service, and ruined by one mistake on his taxes.   Well the facility is built but the man does not get to enjoy it.  This is result of a bad choice.   

Why did Moses not get to go into the promised land and enjoy it with the Israelites?  A bad choice is why.  Why is that you may be experiencing the abundant life Jesus came to give you... it can be because of your bad choices.   Choices have ramifications not only in the now but for the forever. 

Read Numbers 20:12..."But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not believed Me, to treat Me as holy in the sight of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them." 

Will bad decisions keep you out of Heaven?   Only if the bad decision leads to not accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior?   Can you get to heaven while having made bad decisions?   God will always forgive you of your sins, even the intentional sins.  But these sins can have ramifications on your present and future life.  Salvation is for all who  have Jesus as Lord and Savior. 

As the one who decided to build their home on the rock....God's Word and Obedience to that Word...you can do more than just look over to the Promised Land....You can enjoy this promised land...stay and be obedient to Him...

In Jesus' Care, Always,
Bro. Bob