WALK NOT BY SIGHT

WALK NOT BY SIGHT

 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. 5:7 NKJV

Based on choices we make in life, we can either walk by faith ( total trust in what God said) or by sight ( based on what we see, feel, desire or have experienced).

“¹⁰ Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:” Gen 13:10-11 NIV

From the passage above, Lot chose the plain of Jordan (around Sodom and Gomorrah) based on what he saw. It was well watered and green, full of vegetation and he thought it would be a good land for him, his servants and his flocks. In the end, Sodom and Gomorrah (where lot chose to dwell) was destroyed by God because of the atrocities and wickedness of the people that dwell in the city.

“¹ In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. ² The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there”

Ruth 1:1-2 NIV

Another man that walked by sight is Elimelech. Due to famine in the land, he took his wife and two sons and went to the country of Moab (a country that fail to assist the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt) to sustain his family. There, Elimelech and his two sons died and when the lord favoured the land of Bethlehem where they had left, having lost her family, Naomi decided to go back to her husband’s homeland. Though she left full, she went back empty.

“²⁰ "Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. ²¹ I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."  Ruth 1:20-21 NIV

Waking by sight is a great risk because whatever we are seeing is temporary, that is why we have to totally depend on the God that knows the ending of a thing even before the beginning to lead us right. 

“ I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.”  Isa 46:10 NIV

When we make God the decider of our journey (How, where and when to take a step), the future is sure to be and glorious.

“1 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:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Gen 12:1-3 KJV

God gave Abraham a divine instruction backed up with wonderful promises, Abraham obeyed God and trusted in His directions even when those promises seem impossible to the sight of men. He trusted God and followed him with all his heart and in the end, God fulfilled all the promises to him.

Sometimes you don’t know what God’s divine instruction is for you, sometimes you know but it sound too unwise to human. But I tell you, if you can wait on Him, trust and obey His divine instructions, you are sure to eat the good of the land.

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 1 Cor. 1:27 NIV

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:  Isa. 1:19 KJV

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

Hab. 2:3 KJV

                             ………………..GOD BLESS YOU