by Lonnie Mackley
DT 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect
you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will
not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
For many people who have been
stuck in the wilderness for what seems like an eternity they have been asking
in their hearts, "What is God waiting for?", because things just seem
to be dragging on forever. What God has been waiting for is a full commitment
to complete and consistent obedience from us. You see, for many of us we have
walked in complete obedience for short seasons, but then when things got tough
we ran back to our old familiar sin idols. Sin idols are what we run to when we
don't trust God anymore, and what keeps us from being blessed and going
forward.
The Lord has spent many years
revealing "us" to us with both our strengths and weaknesses in order
so that we will have all the understanding and revelation we need to fully
repent of all that has been limiting God from flowing through us in His full
power and blessing. It is no different than the first wilderness with the
Israelites where God waited as long as it took until they were actually ready
to go to war and take the land. We stand at the threshold of the greatest
spiritual war in the history of man, so God will also require us to be
legitimately ready to fight and not to falter because of old sin.
The need out there is so great
and God has only shut us down in order to grow us up, so that we can reap this
critical harvest of souls in these last days. If you have already complied with
everything that God is requiring of you then you are blessed and you should
pray for everyone else until they too cross the river of holiness into their
promised land. If you are ready to truly go forward then take everything that
God has given you and put it into practice by fully repenting. This is your day
to stand not just for now, but for eternity. As it is in heaven, so it must now
be for us on earth as well.
So remember that we are not
necessarily waiting on God, God has been waiting for us to commit ourselves to
living a consistently obedient kingdom lifestyle. We can no longer afford to
have "relative holiness" where we just compare ourselves to how holy
or unholy someone else is around us. We must compare ourselves only to the
daily righteousness that is practiced in the kingdom of God whether it is in
heaven, or the part of God's kingdom here on earth expressed through us. So
make the transition to complete obedience today, and then you will be allowed
to go forward and be blessed.
DT 11:31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter
and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have
taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees
and laws I am setting before you today.