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will eat or drink; or about your body,
what you will wear,” said Jesus. “Is not
life more than food, and the body more
than clothes? Look at the birds of the
air; they do not sow or reap or store
away in barns, and yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. Are you not much
more valuable than they? Can any one
of you by worrying add a single hour to
your life?” problem. If all you do is complain and
run away, you’ll take the same bricks
you carried with you out of Egypt into a
new situation, and ultimately build for
yourself the identical house you lived
in as a slave in Egypt. Instead, those
bitter situations of life, like the bitter
waters of Marah, are designed to drive
us to the Lord. He wants us to cry out
for Him, not complain about Him.
If God takes care of the birds and the
flowers, caring for them by feeding
them and healing them, He will certainly
take care of His people. God allows us
to come to places of testing to see if
we will trust Him, but so often we don’t.
So the Lord tests us by sending us into
the wilderness to encourage spiritual
growth and to bring the best out of us. Taken from Desired by God by Van Moody.
Copyright © 2018 by Van Moody. Used by
permission of Thomas Nelson.
The attitude we take toward the test
and the challenges will determine what
direction in life we go. What life does
to us depends on what life finds in us.
When these situations come, if we trust
God, we will pass the test and grow. But
if we mumble, grumble, and complain,
we will fail the test and remain right
there. Complaining never solves the
Van Moody
Van Moody serves as pastor of The Worship Center in
Birmingham, Alabama. In addition, he is on the board
of Joel Osteen’s Champions Network, is a member
of Dr. Oz’s Core Team, and is an associate trainer in
Japan for Dr. John C. Maxwell’s EQUIP leadership
organization. Moody, his wife, Ty, and their children,
Eden Sydney and Ethan Isaiah, live in Birmingham,
Alabama.
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