When we look at the ups and downs of the people of Israel through the wilderness, outrage reaches our hearts, how could they be so blessed by God that they did not even have to worry about what to eat, because the mana fell from heaven and always complained?What impatient people! The time had come for Moses to take the time to join them in raising a golden calf and falling into idolatry, such murmur, and such idolatry. Today, we can summarize it with an aff or an emoji by setting our eyes blank.
My dear sisters, we are like the people of Israel: whisperers, freelancers and idylathers, yes idylathers, because we rely on the work we have, on the salary available in our bank account every month or on our own ability to work and generate income. our confidence in these ephemeral situations and not in the God who creates and sustains our lives is idolatry. Perhaps our work gives us so much power and fame that we feel like a demigod, building our own golden calf.
- Or maybe you or I fall into another kingdom.
- That we don’t have everything we want to have and that we look at a sister’s life.
- Or even an ungodly one and we don’t understand why with many and others with murmuring and.
- With our own strength and power.
- With that air of “let me do it myself.
- ” we start flirting with socialism and seeing it as a non-biblical hope of a solution for us.
- For our neighbors and even for our own For the country.
- You may even think it’s not at this point.
- Which is an exaggeration.
- But what’s in your heart?.
Deuteronomy 8:2 gives us a clear idea that the desert period was not only a punishment, but also a test. “To test you, to know what was in your heart?This test showed the real situation from people’s hearts. God already knew this, but people needed to know how disobedient they were by not respecting the Lord’s commandments.
This test teaches the people and us who live not only of bread or earthly things, but of all that comes out of the mouth of the Lord (Deut 8:3). Hold all things with the word of your power (Hebrews 1:3). . A word that sustains the world and preserves it from destruction; It is not the bread that kept them alive, but the Word of God; it is not our work, our power, or our fame that sustains us, but the Word of the Lord, its power, its sovereignty, and its righteousness.
God defies our autonomy by testing us; disciplines us when it finds a whispering, self-contained and edylatre heart (Dt 3:5). Man’s heart is in evidence. Discipline leads us through difficulties, which are followed by blessings; the Lord left them hungry, but gave them the unexpected gain (Dt 8:3); we see the rarity and abundance generated by God Himself to please people’s hearts, to make them see that He is the one who gives and withdraws; today we can have everything we want, but if it takes our hearts away, it makes us autonomous and oedothers, tomorrow we may have no more; However, our fear need not be in what we will lose, but if we live to glorify God through obedience. Maybe our hearts are so focused on things we don’t have that will lead us to sin. Fishing with self-pity and whispering Envy perhaps.
I believe that if God’s people entered the promised land with a hardened heart, they could not enjoy the blessing that awaited them (Dt 3:7-10) and would not glorify or praise the Lord their God. , for the good land he gives us (Deuteronomy 3:10).
Examine your heart before God, the Holy Spirit is not only a spectator of our lives, but a transformative agent, who tests our hearts, sees if there is a wrong way, and guides us on the eternal path (Ps 139:23-24) The greatest blessing we can desire and enjoy is communion with our God, satisfaction, and contentment in Him , to the heavenly house, where we will not need anything we have built here on earth, but we will enjoy every being of God. .