BEFDL 11 (From HGM on 21 Dec 21)

BIBLICAL ELEMENTS FOR DAILY LIVING-11 TEXT: 

"The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:" (Deuteronomy 1:6) 

 I. BEING DISTURBED BY GOD 

 A. As shown in Deuteronomy 1:6, God rules in the havens and His government is in absolute control. We cannot measure God's grace. It is overwhelming and beyond our comprehension and understanding. It is all inclusive, so that none are rejected from it unless they choose to be. We can rest in that security even if God the Father does not have us in place of comfort. 

 B. The Lord at times will move us from our place of ease. Just as the Lord lead His children out of Egypt to the mount of blessing, the place where they had it all, and then told them to move on, He will cause us to move out of our comfort zones. 

 C. "Moving on" is a continuing theme in Bible. So too in our lives the Lord will move us out of a place that we enjoy and we find comforting. Yet He has an ultimate purpose, though we may not see it with our natural eyes of understanding. 

 D. In God's government there are three resounding elements. Through these elements, He desires to show us that our destiny is sure in Him and to reassure us that He is working towards that end. This is the certainty upon which we must plant our feet. God love and desires for our lives. 

 E. God will disturb us! He needs to keep us from being settled and attached, and earthly-bound in our thinking and ways. Though in the world we are not of this world. Abram (later Abraham) was told, "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:" (Genesis 12:1) 

 F. Not knowing where he was going, but following the LORD's direction he and his family took off and heads out. This today would be a very disturbing thing to do just to pack up and head out on the open road. Yet as Abram followed the LORD in blindness day-by-day he began to see God's beauty and how God was working on his behalf. 

 G. But first though, he had to be disturbed. We are often reminded by God that this earth is not our place to build or castle. If not we will sink roots of dreams, ambitions, and plans deep into the earth and it's systems of life. 

 H. Why did God allow Satan to disturb Job? Maybe because in his heart, Job was saying, "I am at ease." "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east." (Job 1:3) As God's children we must take in the full scope of things, what we call the good and the bad. In the end are we able, as Job was, to stand on the ash heap when God disturbs us and say, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord." 

 I. Joseph also retained his integrity in the time of trial while God was disturbing him. As with Joab and Absalom (2 Samuel 14) God may set your fields on fire in order to bring you before the King of Kings. J. As God settles us we began to see God's government, point two, is progressive. He will continually call us to those things which are greater, higher, and deeper in Him. We are to be in love with the Man from Galilee to a point of surpassing all understanding no matter what is going on in our lives. 

K. The eagle stirs up her nest to push the baby eaglets out just as our Father must push us. "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:" (Deuteronomy 32:11) Again and again He will take us from the safety of our nest into the buffeting winds. And drop us to see if we have learned to "mount up at thy command." "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? (Job 39:27) 

II. PARTING THOUGHTS 

A. With time, however, we will learn the flow of the wind currents and be able to soar to the new heights where He calls us. We cannot stay where we are at and attain the glory of the kingdom. 

B. We must be willing to take the initial step of letting God disturb us. Which brings us to our third point, He will never let us fall. Like the mother eagle God will soar down and catch us on His wing keeping us from dashing on the rocks below and He always returns us to the safety of the nest to continue the learning process again and again until, "She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place." (Job 39:28)