If We Believe

DEVOTION HEBREWS IF WE BELIEVE Heb 3:16-19 16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. NIV It certainly would appear it is far better to believe then to not believe. Why would people not believe? Is their own life that important to them they refuse to allow God to have any say as to how they should behave? What was the reason these people who were lead out of Egypt, who saw God open the Red Sea, who saw manna fall from the sky every morning, and quail besides, who saw bitter waters turned sweet, not to mention the pillar of fire and smoke which went before them, refused to enter into the land he lead them to? After all they saw, they did not believe God would give them victory over a rather large people. After all they experienced from the hand of God they still feared death rather than believe God. Are we any different? Have we seen what God has done in our lives and then still refuse to believe Him for something rather large? Is anything impossible for God? So why do we struggle with believing He will do something? Did he not say that if we say to a mountain get up and throw yourself into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes what he says will happen, it will be done. He goes on to say therefore whatever you ask for in prayer and believe that you received it and it will be yours. So why do we doubt? What is wrong with believers who doubt God? Isn’t a doubting believer an oxymoron? Shouldn’t simply believe whatever He says is true? Certainly we desire to enter His rest, so we need to rid ourselves of all unbelief. We need to believe God for all things, everything, without exception. We cannot afford to think that we can do it for ourselves or that He will not give us this or that, or do something for us. He said he would provide all our needs according to His riches in Glory, not according to our riches in earth. Do we think that because we still have some sin in our lives that He will not do what He said He would? Which of us can every attain perfection? Which of us can ever be worthy of what God declared He would do for us? But we can believe, we can expel all doubt from our heart. We can trust Him because He is God. If we believe.