And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, and will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, and the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. | ||
| Numbers 32:20–24 | ||
| Because God will never take us one step further in our spiritual lives than we want to go, Moses agreed to Reuben’s and Gad’s proposal, but warned them that if they didn’t live up to their agreement, their sin would find them out. This is a pivotal, foundational principle. Notice Moses didn’t say it was God who would track them down, do them in, find them out. No, should Reuben and Gad fail to keep their end of the bargain, it was their sin that would find them out. And the same is true with us. Due to the finished work of the Cross, God not only forgives our sin, but buries it in the sea of His forgetfulness (Micah 7:19; Hebrews 10:17). Yet I must understand that, as Galatians 6:7 declares, whatever I sow, I will reap. It isn’t God who says, “Aha! I’m going to expose that sin to embarrass you.” That’s not the nature of our Father. No, it is the sin itself that will come to fruition. I am firmly persuaded and deeply convinced that there is no exception to this. Every time I sin, that sin will sooner or later track me down, find me out, and humiliate me. But it’s not God doing this. Rather, it’s the work of the Enemy to not only seduce us into sin, but to expose and humiliate us through it. Pastor Jon Courson | ||
