Today’s Scripture:
Deuteronomy 1:6-8 NIV
The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”
This passage was the command of God through Moses to the children of Israel to leave Horeb for better, but the children of Israel had become comfortable and pitched tents and were living a good life, but here's the thing were they living their best life? Living a good life is good when you're living from paycheck to paycheck, but is that your best life? So you can become comfortable with less and mediocrity, than living in the best and the abundance that God has for you.
Why? Because we rather be comfortable than discomfort. I'm not sure who would choose discomfort over comfort. Except probably Jesus? No, yes, Jesus did. The Bible said, and this is how we started this week, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame. In other words, Jesus became comfortable with the uncomfortable so that he could experience God's best for him. Taking up his cross the uncomfortable, so that he could have the place of authority far above principalities and powers.
He is now at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for us. He's elevated to the place of authority and all power. I wonder what we are missing out on because we refuse to embrace the uncomfortable. The children of Israel were comfortable, they had mana, water, and their tents. But here's what God had for them: a land flowing with milk and honey. That was more than what they had, but to get to it meant disruption, it meant becoming uncomfortable, it meant moving from one place to the next.
Horeb means dry place, glowing heat. That's not the same as where God wanted them to go. They were in a dry place but comfortable. For some of us, God's got something in store for us but it is in another city, another country, and we refuse to break camp; we refuse to lean into what God is saying to us. We want to be comfortable. But we will miss our Destiny and our best life for comfort; we can be comfortably broke, comfortably poor, comfortably living in lack when God says, get up and take what I have given you.
He told them to take possession of the land he swore to give to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jaco. This was their inheritance. But because they were comfortable, they were not willing to go in and take what was theirs. Family, if we are going to experience God's best, we must embrace the uncomfortable. We must step into the unknown and, conquer our fears, and trust that the God who took us to Horeb will take us into the Promised Land. The God who took you through college will also provide the job; the God who brought you through nursing school will provide the job that you've been waiting for. Trust him and embrace the uncomfortable.
He's in the midst of it, and he has more for you than you know. Just decide that I will step into the uncomfortable to experience God's best for me. He wants you to have his best and not what's left. Embrace the uncomfortable, and experience God's best.
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