no compromise

Standout Verse – Numbers 33:55
But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live.

Do you ever just want the Word of God to be a little more cryptic. Have you ever wanted to carry on reading more and more in the hope that you would come across a different passage that would jump out at you so that you could claim that as God’s message to you for the day. Have you ever known the voice of God and wish he’d kept the message for another day?

Just as the Israelites were to drive out all the wickedness from the land they were being given, so we as Christians are to drive out all sin from our lives. Twice now the Israelites have failed to drive out the evil: once because they were afraid (of their giant scale); now because they wish to compromise (since they seem harmless, even attractive). They wished that God had been more cryptic, that he would say something else that is easier, that he would keep the message for another day. But he didn’t, for he knew the damage that their remaining would cause.

Today it is still true – God is not cryptic, but clear; his message is challenging and it comes at the right time.

Lord, teach me to accept your word.