Too often I have focused on what the enemy was doing, rather than trying to understand what God was doing. Too often, my legs wanted to run forward, charging ahead in advance against the enemy, more so than my feet wanted to simply stand my ground as I waited upon God. In ancient Israel, the ark of God always went out ahead of the Israelites, and then they followed it and stood their ground in that place until the ark moved again. Sometimes they maintained the area with a sword, sometimes they maintained the area with a tent, either way, they stood their ground wherever God led them. Their focus was not on what their enemies were doing, but where the ark was moving and what God was doing (Joshua 3:3,4).
Therefore, our question in this day of darkness and confusion must not be based upon the movement of the enemy, because then we will be led by the enemy. We must focus our actions and understanding upon God Himself, upon His movement and thus be led by Him. So we ask the right question: “What does God want from us? What direction is God drawing us?” And that answer is simple. God wants us to believe in the One Whom He sent, as He draws us to the cross. That is what He wants from us and that is the direction the ark is drawing us.
Listen to me beloved, what God wants us to understand is that regardless of what is happening today, regardless of what the enemy is doing, God’s desire and direction for us have not changed. Regardless of how we interpret Daniel or Revelation or what we believe about the great tribulation, and regardless of what we understand about the rapture or the Antichrist, God’s desire and direction for us remain the same. The ark has not moved, our encampment is at the foot of the cross and our gaze must remain upon our risen Lord. That is what God is doing, this is what He has always been doing and where He has always been working, despite all our brick making and brick laying and frantic building and religious tasking. And especially despite all the chaotic antics of the enemy.
In this day of gross darkness, for us to walk in the light as He is in the light, is to not focus upon the world or the things in this world, but to focus upon who you are in Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, you are dead to this world, you are crucified with Him, the old you is gone, this world is passing away and this world is not your home, you are a stranger here, a sojourner and a vagabond (John 15:19, 17:16, 18:36; 2 Cor 5:17; Galatians 2:20; 1 Peter 2:11). It is here that the ark has led you and it is here that you are encamped, it is here that God is doing His work in you, and it is here that you must maintain your ground. This is your answer to the right question.
(1 Cor 7:31) …for this world in its present form is passing away.
(1 John 2:16,17) For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. The world is passing away, along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
(John 6:29) Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”
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