GETTING IT DONE
Today's reading: Deuteronomy 20-22

Allow me to guess what you heard in church yesterday...

Perhaps, that God loves you.

That God hates sin.

That the ONLY way for you to get to heaven is through the saving blood of Jesus Christ.

That faith in God is what's needed to be victorious.

And today? Today you're grasping to remember just what you heard.

You're trying to remind yourself that God loves you, as unlovable as you believe you are.

That sin is what separates you from Him and getting it out of your heart and life is important.

That your salvation is a monumental, life-changing, beginning of a journey experience!

That faith--well, you're really struggling with that one, aren't you? You believe God can. You believe God has. You believe might want to--for someone, but you? You?

You my friend, are doing just what God commanded us not to do:

"Do not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together." Deuteronomy 22:10 NLT

Stay with me...Animal officianado or not you'll undoubtedly agree with me that oxen and donkeys are two completely different animals. We can probably also agree on the fact that the two animals are different sizes, shapes and design. I'll wager a bet on the fact that we can also agree that God's instructions to the children of Israel were intended to make life easier for them, not harder.

Thus, the instructions about the ox and donkey. It would certainly make for a long day in the field trying to coordinate the efforts of these two beasts of burden. Imagine, if you will, the hours, the patience and the sweat required to convince these two hard working animals that working together would be easier than working separately.

Like you're trying to do with doubt and faith.

It's quite a tussle, isn't it? It's wearying. It's contradictory. It's next to impossible, no--it's impossible.

Friend, it's time you decided if you are going to live by faith or by fear. It's the day of reckoning, God or satan?