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“Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.” — Numbers 11:23
God had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the creature instead of the Creator. But doth the Creator expect the creature to fulfil His promise for Him? No; He who makes the promise ever fulfils it by His own unaided omnipotence. If He speaks, it is done — done by Himself. His promises do not depend for their fulfillment upon the co-operation of the puny strength of man. We can at once perceive the mistake which Moses made. And yet how commonly we do the same! God has promised to…
supply our needs, and we look to the creature to do what God has
promised to do; and then, because we perceive the creature to be weak and
feeble, we indulge in unbelief. Why look we to that quarter at all? Will you
look to the north pole to gather fruits ripened in the sun? Verily, you
would act no more foolishly if ye did this than when you look to the weak
for strength, and to the creature to do the Creator’s work. Let us, then, put
the question on the right footing. The ground of faith is not the sufficiency
of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the
all-sufficiency of the invisible God, who will most surely do as He hath
said. If after clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with
the creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes
home mightily to us: “Has the Lord’s hand waxed short?” May it happen,
too, in His mercy, that with the question there may flash upon our souls
that blessed declaration, “Thou shalt see now whether My word shall
come to pass unto thee or not.”
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“Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.” — Numbers 11:23
God had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the creature instead of the Creator. But doth the Creator expect the creature to fulfil His promise for Him? No; He who makes the promise ever fulfils it by His own unaided omnipotence. If He speaks, it is done — done by Himself. His promises do not depend for their fulfillment upon the co-operation of the puny strength of man. We can at once perceive the mistake which Moses made. And yet how commonly we do the same! God has promised to…
supply our needs, and we look to the creature to do what God has
promised to do; and then, because we perceive the creature to be weak and
feeble, we indulge in unbelief. Why look we to that quarter at all? Will you
look to the north pole to gather fruits ripened in the sun? Verily, you
would act no more foolishly if ye did this than when you look to the weak
for strength, and to the creature to do the Creator’s work. Let us, then, put
the question on the right footing. The ground of faith is not the sufficiency
of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the
all-sufficiency of the invisible God, who will most surely do as He hath
said. If after clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with
the creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes
home mightily to us: “Has the Lord’s hand waxed short?” May it happen,
too, in His mercy, that with the question there may flash upon our souls
that blessed declaration, “Thou shalt see now whether My word shall
come to pass unto thee or not.”
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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