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 BELIEVING HIM...WAITING UPON HIM

Psalm 106:13, 24

"But they soon forgot His works. They did not wait to hear what He wanted them to do." "The people refused to enter the pleasant land, for they wouldn’t believe His promise to care for them."

God's people had just witnessed His deliverance from Egypt and saw with their own eyes the Red Sea part for them to cross over. They then saw God's judgement on the armies of the Pharoah as the waters came back and covered them all. 

Mere days passed when they "forgot" what He had done for them. They didn't think it important to retain in their present memory what God had done. They would not extrapolate on His faithfulness at one juncture and trust Him to continue to be for them Who he had been just a few days prior. 

They refused to wait on God's counsel. The length on their vision was less than the length of their noses because they limited God in their minds based on what they could see as possible. They did not wait on Him. They did not trust Him to be their Shepherd and would not believe His promise to care for them because they couldn't imagine how.

What God had done for them was enough of a seedbed for faith to take root so they might believe Him. Since He had done miraculous things for them thus far based only on His grace rather than any performance of their own, it was logical that He would be Who He was to them always, as He had told them.

Our circumstances, what we can see, do not and will never circumscribe or limit what God can do. When we do not know or understand, we are called to trust Him and wait for His counsel. Grumbling that we don't know and cannot see a way forward is not a posture to take.

He has told us: 1 Corinthians 2:9 “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.” The Lord IS our Shepherd; we shall not want..." Believe Him and wait for His counsel. He will lead and guide and provide.

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