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In the Gates

Forfeiture of Blessing

The Worldview of God’s Law: Spiritual Discipline (3)

We may never know some of the rich blessings God has for us.

The LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word. But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers.” Numbers 14.20-23

The generation that balked at the report of the spies did not lose their salvation, but they did forfeit the blessings of God. Moses forfeited the blessings of God when he obstructed the people’s vision of the power of God’s Word. God is warning His people, here in His Law, that the many abundant blessings and precious and very great promises He has in store for us can be forfeited by unbelief and disobedience.

This is as true for the followers of Christ as it was for the ancient Israelites. If we will not believe the Lord and will not walk in His ways, how can we expect to know the full and abundant life He has for us in Jesus? We forfeit the blessings He continually holds out to us because of our little faith.

The Lord uses passive disciplines to keep us in the way of His covenant, to keep us on track to know and enjoy Him and His promises. We need to understand how these passive disciplines work, so that we recognize and respond to them as we should. Thus we can know the benefit God intends through them.

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T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.
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