Tuesday – Pentateuch
Reading – Numbers 21-22
Highlight Verse:
“So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages.”
Numbers 21:25 NLT
I love road trips!
Last month I managed to explore nine states and four national parks in one road trip.
It was great.
But it was also good to get home.
I’ve lived in Colorado for 20 years now.
Sounds pretty stable, but I wasn’t always that way.
In my younger years, I moved several times across several states.
There were several reasons for that – some good, some not so good.
In hind sight, I would say that only two of those places were right where God had called me.
As for the Israelites, it would seem good for them to settle in a territory they had just conquered.
Only one problem – it wasn’t the promised land.
This area became the territory of the tribes of Gad and Rueben after they begged to be able to stay there when the rest of Israel crossed into the promised land.
Compared to the fertile land west of the Jordan River, this area was arid and difficult to live off of.
Sometimes we do the same thing as those two tribes.
God has a calling for each and every person.
It may not be easy to see, but if we persevere in prayer and faith, the pieces will fall into place.
Sometimes, along the journey to our calling, our “promised land,” we find the comfortable to be “good enough.”
When we settle for good enough, we miss out on God’s best.
It is not always easy to tell the difference, but with God’s best, you will not have to compromise your values, your faith, your morals, or God’s calling on your life.
It’s a lesson I should have learned long ago.
Have you ever found yourself settling for “good enough” instead of God’s best?
How did you recognize when you were compromising?
Walk in the Light 