Falaite Fepueli 27, 2026
TEUTALONOME 1-2; 2 KOLINITO 12:9-10
You are in spiritual danger when you are able to convince yourself that God is not enough.
‘Oku ke ‘i ha tu’unga fakatu’utamaki fakalaumalie ‘i he taimi ‘oku ke pehee ai ‘oku ‘ikai fe’unga ‘a e ‘Otua.
After setting his love on them and taking them as his own…
After unleashing his power to deliver them from slavery in Egypt....
After miraculously parting the Red Sea and defeating Egypt…
After thunderously giving the law at Mount Sinai…
After resting his glory cloud on the tabernacle.
After guiding his people with the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night…
After providing daily manna to sustain them.
After all of God's mighty display that he was with Israel to guide, protect, and provide, the people of Israel are now separated from the promised land by just a mere river, and they refuse to go in because of the opposing forces there. This is much more than a military calculation based on information from surveillance of the land. No, the refusal of Israel is deeply spiritual. After all of God's displays of power and glory, his people stand looking at the land that has been promised to them and conclude that God is not enough. Their rebellious refusal to enter the promised land and fight battles in the power of the Lord is rooted in unbelief. Unbelief is the ultimate rebellion. It gives you reason not to embrace God's promises or submit to his commands. Unbelief blames rebellion on God; that is, it asserts that he is not enough and has not done enough.
Pay careful attention to these words from Moses's first sermon in Deuteronomy.
"The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place." Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God, who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go. (Deut. 1:30-33)
Let these words sink in: "The LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son." This is how faithful, tender, and complete the guidance, care, and protection of the Lord were over his Israelite children. But Moses said that, in the face of all God had done, Israel still refused to believe that he would unleash his power to deliver the land he had promised. The Savior of Israel is our Savior as well. In his incarnation, his miraculous ministry, his righteous life, his substitutionary death, his victorious resurrection, the miracle of his ascension, and the gift of his indwelling Spirit, he has shown us that he will do all that is needed to give us all he has promised. Yet, in the face of this display of redeeming grace, a question remains. Today, as you face opposition and trial, will you conclude that your Savior is not enough?
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