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Wednesday... There is so much for us if only.


Psalm 95:7b (NLT), "If only you would listen to his voice today!" 

Wednesday... There is so much for us if only.

We really don't realize the real possibilities in our relationship with God. We really don't comprehend what he wants to do in our lives. Psalm 95:7b (NLT) says, "If only you would listen to his voice today." 

I am also reading in the book of Exodus and I have just read of the happening at the Red Sea and today it was about them getting water out of a rock. They were in the desert and they were thirsty and they started griping.


In Exodus 17:2 I read, "So once more the people complained against Moses. 'Give us water to drink!' they demanded. 'Quiet!' Moses replied. 'Why are you complaining against me? And why are you testing the Lord?'" And we do that so many times don't we? We complain and we don't realize that we too are testing.

Now what happened next was that God told Moses to take his staff, his miracle staff and hit a rock and then watch the water come out. Yes, there is so much for us if only.

Later in verse 7 it says, "Moses named the place Massah (which means 'test') and Meribah (which means 'arguing') because the people of Israel argued with Moses and tested the Lord by saying, 'Is the Lord here with us or not?'" We too many times ask the same question.

Now Psalm 95 remembers these times in the wilderness. Verses 6-9 says, "Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care. If only you would listen to his voice today! The Lord says, 'Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness. For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience, even though they saw everything I did."

Three phrases out of those verses that we need to remember, "for he is our God", "We are the people he watches over" and "even though they saw everything I did." There is so much he wants to do for us if only we would listen to his voice today.

It is so easy for us to complain today, isn't it? And by that we don't realize that we are testing and trying God's patience.

"Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care.If only we would listen to his voice." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning




 


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