John 12:37-40 (New International Version)
The Jews Continue in Their Unbelief
Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:
"Lord, who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
"He has blinded their eyes
and deadened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor turn—and I would heal them."
Many of God's own people who were saved from Egypt did not reach their ultimate destination intended by God during Moses' times. The reason was; there was unbelief in their hearts towards God's leading in the desert.They looked back to Egypt at every turn and their hearts refused to believe that God was leading them there.
There were two different groups of God's people led out of Egypt, one believed in God no matter how dificult it became for them to carry on but the other kept looking back and prefered Egypt and all it's fleshful attractions.The unbelieving ones were pleasure centered and missed the pleasurable lives they had lived while there.
Those who believed that God was with them and leading them and did not turn and look back at Egypt, reached Canaan Land in the end but the rest did not make it. Two of those who reached Canaan Land successfully were Joshua and Caleb. They were the two who believed that God was leading them in that dry and thirsty land.
This is what the Lord Jesus Christ said to his disciples,
Matthew 16:24-27 (New International Version)
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
You will be rewarded accordingly for the pathway you have chosen; a way of belief or unbelief towards God? If you have turned and looked back to the world for all it's pleasures and are full of unbelief towards the Lord's leading of you to full Christformation in you, then only you will be paying for that mistake of your life, eternally.Count your cost now, won't you!(To be continued)
