Has God Indeed Said
In the beginning of creation the serpent used a cunning trick to deceive the first woman.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
This tactic is still being used today especially as it pertains to the promises of God. Believers are challenged in their faith concerning the ever present very real presence of God in the person of the Holy Spirit.
They see with their natural eyes situations and circumstances, they feel with their natural senses certain things in their bodies and it is so real. So when a promise like that of being healed, delivered, or having been given great favor becomes challenged with a subconscious “Has God Indeed Said.”
In another place in Scripture we find an important truth regarding the things seen verses things unseen.
2Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The things of the Spirit are eternal and more real than what we can see, feel or touch here in the natural. Everything in the natural is temporary. Everything in the Spirit is eternal and will have no end.
Understanding this truth can help determine what is sought after more, the spiritual promises made by God and authenticated through Christ, or the natural solutions man in all his limited wisdom can devise.
It might seem foolish to a natural man for someone to put their trust in a promise from God, but to a person of the Spirit it is like breathing fresh air. The promises offer a hope and a future that far exceeds the answers and promises of men in their limited wisdom.
Believing and taking God at His word is the one thing that is always guaranteed to please Him. It is the the obedience we’ve been asked to engage in. So I encourage you today to silence that cunning voice that wishes to camp out in the subconscious always challenging the good thing God has said and His wise counsel. I encourage you to take God at His word just as it is given, even the promises that right now seem too good to be true due to all the circumstances surrounding you in this moment. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you, by your faith in Jesus, to push forward into the greater things God has for you.
