Can i please choose? if its possible? im already tormented enough with good words.
Do you ever say anything to your children that helps them? or do you pick and choose? is this like a chess game to you?
I think this is said well.. from the Message..
Hebrews 4
When the Promises Are Mixed with Faith
1-3For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God's goal for us, we need to be careful that we're not disqualified. We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn't do them a bit of good because they didn't receive the promises with faith. If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting. But not if we don't have faith. Remember that God said,
Exasperated, I vowed,
"They'll never get where they're going,
never be able to sit down and rest."
"Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, that no one fall by the same sort of disobedience" (Heb. 4:11).
Why do we miss out on what GOD promises.. because we HIS people do not believe HIM and do what HE says.. Everything that comes against you/us.. is trying to steal what GOD has for you/us.. fear.. is opposite of faith.. torment opposite of peace.. sadness opposite of joy.. and so on..
HIS best was offered to HIS people back in the old days and still is.. but instead they murmurred and complained and wandered for forty years and took themselves on a long long unnecessary trip that should have only taken a few weeks .. take note though that GOD provided for them even in their wilderness years.. sending food from heaven..
What is the name of the leader who finally took Israel into the land? It was Joshua (which means "the Lord God saves").