Everyone loves an adventure! I think I am safe to make that statement. I think there are two camps of people… those that like to read about adventures and those that want to take them. I fall in the later category… I can really relate to how the Apostles lived. Jesus would call them to “drop everything” and follow Him! To follow Him on The Great Adventure! In Matthew 6, He is telling us to do the same….To seek Him and His Kingdom first. To follow His leading into the Adventure He has for us.
Matthew 6:25-34
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Impressions
“The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them” (Num. 10:33).
God does give us impressions, but not that we should act on them as impressions. If the impression be from God, He will Himself give sufficient evidence to establish it beyond the possibility of a doubt. How beautiful is the story of Jeremiah, of the impression that came to him respecting the purchase of the field of Anathoth. But Jeremiah did not act upon this impression until after the following day, when his uncle’s son came to him and brought him external evidence by making a proposal for the purchase. Then Jeremiah said: “I knew this was the word of the Lord.” He waited until God seconded the impression by a providence, and then he acted in full view of the open facts, which could bring conviction unto others as well as to himself. God wants us to act according to His mind. We are not to ignore the Shepherd’s personal voice but, like Paul and his companions at Troas, we are to listen to all the voices that speak and “gather” from all the circumstances, as they did, the full mind of the Lord. –Dr. Simpson *** “Where God’s finger points, there God’s hand will make the way.” Do not say in thine heart what thou wilt or wilt not do, but wait upon God until He makes known His way. So long as that way is hidden it is clear that there is no need of action, and that He accounts Himself responsible for all the results of keeping thee where thou art. –Selected *** “For God through ways we have not known, Will lead His own.”
The above Streams in the Desert Devotional came at just the right time. You see, God has given me many impressions of what He has planned for me but yet the “door” has not opened yet. He has painted quite a picture of the works He has for me… A Divine Finger Painting! Yet, I still wait and wonder if I should just step out and leave for Denver on a solo move and trust God to open the doors. To go on ahead and bring my family later. And then… this devotional! Prayer – ” Thank you Lord for confirming that my waiting is in line with your will. As you have confirmed my steps in the past; you will do it again at the appointed time. I trust you completely.”
May we wait with patience, trusting His perfect timing and perfect love. Peace, Jonathan
