We are told that our
God is a jealous God. When we look
elsewhere for safety that is showing a lack of faith in God. Here is a great example of how God views
that!
Jeremiah 42:10-17(NKJV)
‘If you will still
remain in this land, then I will build you and not pull you down, and I will plant you and not
pluck you up. For I relent
concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.
Do not be afraid of
the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,’ says
the Lord, ‘for I am with you,
to save you and deliver you from his hand.
And I will show you
mercy, that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.’
“But if you say, ‘We will not
dwell in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the Lord your God,
saying, ‘No, but we will go to
the land of Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet,
nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell’—
Then hear now the word of
the Lord, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of
Israel: ‘If you wholly set your faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell
there,
then it shall be that the sword which you feared
shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you were
afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
So shall it be with all the men
who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword,
by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the
disaster that I will bring upon them.’
Just seems a lot
easier to trust God in my opinion!
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