Transition from promise to possession

Challenges in the Lord allow us to look forward and grow each day more in his Spirit… or give in, fold the flags of faith in Christ and cast aside his promises. Each day brings its own desire. The promises of God are not a catalog of empty and meaningless expressions. They were recorded in his Word so that you and I may revive our hope in Christ every day, they are immutable and eternal as their creator. God promises his people a complete inheritance, a spiritual land where the pasture of his grace abounds and definitively ends the wandering and disloyal pilgrimage devoid of purpose. The only condition for you to confidently undertake your travel itinerary is obedience, keeping its law, meditating on it to put it into practice and for your life to achieve true prosperity. Your prosperity depends on your relationship with God. To possess the promise is to conquer it, it is to fight it, it is to enter the battlefield where He accompanies you and blesses you if you make an effort and are brave, it is where He does not skimp on renewing the ties that perhaps one day you tended to him and the next. you forgot about the excesses and follies that life and the fallen world imposes on us.

We must make a leap to transition, to innovation, to transformation. Joshua's name was Hosea, which means "salvation." There he was as Moses' Minister in the 40-year wilderness adventures, the training ground where God tested the will and courage of many of his mighty men. There he learned of God's promise to possess, to own the land that He had as an inheritance for His people. Moses changed his name before he died and called him Joshua which means "Jehovah is salvation", as announcing that Savior who was to come to take his church to the heavenly Canaan according to the promise of eternal life.

We are more Hosea than Joshua and that is why we need a transition. Cross our own Jordan confident that God will be with us and will never abandon us. Definitively become the servant and soldier of the invincible hosts of the Lord of Glory. He has given you a mission and has promised not to abandon you in the endeavor and to give you all the territory that your feet reach. He does not assure you that there will be no dangers, disappointments, frustrations, falls, losses and betrayals, but he does promise you "I will be with you, I will not leave you or forsake you." Do you know what this means? It means in the first place that He will be present, (“… I will be with you”) in His mission, in your personal battle, in what He wants you to glorify Him. It means that you will receive instruction in everything you do (“… I will not leave you”), which guarantees not only that you will have his company, but also that he will tell you everything you have to do. Finally, the Lord ends with this beautiful statement “… I will not abandon you”, as if saying to you: I will fight in front of you, the battle is also mine, success is guaranteed because I am directing and participating directly in this fight. What are my conditions? asks the Lord:

1. Be strong and brave! and that requires obedience. My promises I will not pour from heaven as I make the morning dew sprout: it requires that you be obedient and strive. Your obedience makes my name great and provokes my intervention on your behalf.

2. Hear my voice! Search my Word for the instruction you need, keep it in your heart, memorize it, meditate on it so that you can apply it to your situation and exalt it so that it goes well for you and you have prosperity.

3. Talk to me! Although I know your struggles and concerns, I want to hear it from your voice. Your sincere prayer will always be a pleasant perfume to my senses. I will answer you according to my will.

4. You need to renew yourself! My true disciples are not conformists, but tireless conquerors because they are filled with the transforming Spirit of my Father. The land possesses the blessing that I have promised you! Win her in the battle of faith. Make the transition from passivity to activity. "I will be with you, I will not leave you, nor will I forsake you."

We thank God for his promises. Joshua made the transition, became the obedient servant who led his people to conquer the promise of the Lord. It was no longer Hosea, son of Nun, who sent Moses to recognize the land of Negev (Numbers 13: 16-17), but rather the entrepreneur, the conqueror, the doer of the Word of God.

You too, brother and sister, you can be. Do not forget that in your heart there is one, thousands of arteries, through which flows the same blood of the line of Josué, that of the incomparable, great, powerful and sublime Redeemer.

Recommendation to read more on the subject: " Transitions - God will speak to you through your efforts ", a sermon by Dr. Roberto Miranda.