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How To Avoid A Life Of Tedious Monotony

How would you describe your life? Do you feel as though you are spending your days in vain and fruitless wanderings around the same mountain, seemingly accomplishing nothing, and wondering if things will ever change? What is the solution? The Bible gives the answer.

Psalm 78:33 gives a very sad commentary on the children of Israel - "Therefore their days did He consume in vanity, and their years in trouble."

Instead of enjoying the Promised Land, these people wandered forty years in the wilderness, beset by terrors, troubles, and alarms. They enjoyed such little comfort and purpose for their lives.

Why? What could possibly cause such a horrible state of "existence" - such sadness, gloominess, and cheerlessness?

Notice that the Scripture says that "their days did He consume in vanity..." Who is the "He" in that verse? It is none other than God Almighty.

What did they do to incur His awful wrath and judgment?

Several verses in Psalm 78 present the cause for their apparently wasted existence.

• Psalm 78:11 - "And forgat His works, and His wonders that He had showed them."

• Psalm 78:22 - "Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation."

• Psalm 78:32 - "For all this they sinned still, and believed not for His wondrous works."

• Psalm 78:42 - "They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy."

The cause for their "meaningless existence" can be summed up in seven words - "Forgat," believed not," "trusted not," and "remembered not."

Psalm 78:11 - The children of Israel forgot God's wonderful works that He repeatedly displayed on their behalf - "...forgat His works, and His wonders that He had showed them."

You ask - How could they possibly do this? How could they forget the Mighty Miracles that they witnessed time and time again?

In spite of all that they experienced, they didn't believe in God's power or promises.

• Psalm 78:22 - They still doubted His ability to save them from any and all troubles - "...believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation."

• Psalm 78:23 - God proved to them that He had absolute control over the clouds and was able to rain down abundance over them and supply any need that they could possibly face - "Though He had commanded the clouds from above..."

• Psalm 78:23 - He proved to them that He had the keys to the "doors of heaven" and could shower blessings upon them in such abundance that all would have enough - "...opened the doors of heaven."

• Psalm 78:24 - He supplied heavenly grain for them referred to as "manna" or the "corn of heaven."

• Psalm 78:27 - He also provided "flesh" "as dust" and "feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea." In comparing this provision to the "dust" and the "sand of the sea," the Holy Spirit desired to get across to us the superabundance of the supply.

• Psalm 78:28 - What is really special is that God brought the provisions right to their back door. They did not have to go out looking for them. "...He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."

• Psalm 78:29 - What a glorious picture we have here! Everyone was blessed and provided for! - "So they did eat, and were well filled: for He gave them their own desire."

• Psalm 78:25 - "Man did eat angels' food: He sent them meat to the full."

This was not any ole common provision either. God gave them the Best!

"Angels' food" refers to the food of nobles and princes - the rich, the great, and the mighty. It was the most delicate of sustenance, and it was provided to the fullest measure.

How did the Children of Israel react to all of these miracles?

They "forgat," "believed not," "trusted not," and "remembered not."

How did God react to their gross unbelief and ungratefulness?

Psalm 78:33 - "Therefore their days did He consume in vanity, and their years in trouble."

What about you, O Christian? Where should you be in your walk with the Lord? Where exactly are you?

• Are you still going around the same mountain?

• Are you still traveling through a spiritual wilderness when you should be enjoying the blessings of the Promised Land?

• Have you, like the Israelites, sinned against the Lord through unbelief?

• Have you forgotten Who He is and what He is capable of doing?

• Have you forgotten that He still has command over the clouds and can rain down blessings upon you and your children in great supply for your every need?

• Have you forgotten that He alone has the keys to the "doors of heaven" and can shower you with amazing answers to your prayers?

• Have you forgotten that your blessings are by grace and that you don't have to work for them? That they have already been provided for? God will even bring them to your doorstep - if you will only believe in His power and promises.

How is it that you have allowed unbelief and fear to overtake your heart and mind?

Zephaniah 3:17 - Don't the Scriptures say - "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy..."
Hebrews 13:8 - "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
Malachi 3:5 - "For I am the LORD, I change not..."

Your unbelief has caused you to merely "exist" rather than "live" as God designed.

Repent of all sin today.
Don't let your heart be hardened again through unbelief.
Rehearse for yourself and your children all of the former favors from God bestowed on your family.
Then determine that - come hell or high water - you and your household will serve the Lord in faith and trust.

You will believe God and trust in His salvation.

May God Bless His Word.
Connie

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