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56 “They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them.”

Exodus 32:8

 How quickly and readily we turn away and doubt! We hit a minor health issue in our life, and we start to allow the devil to persuade us that God is not for us. Our thoughts can so easily undermine our faith and cause us to have distress and fear. We do fear the Lord because of who he is, but we relate to Him as a loving Father and not as a judge. We keep closely to the Scripture which is the touchstone of all instruction, encouragement and comfort.

 The Israelites of old were so easily and quickly deflected from their love for God, that they made the idol of the golden calf when Moses was on the mountain with God. They quickly prostrated themselves before the falsehood and forgot all that God had done for them, failing to rehearse their faith and gain the help of God. We can be like this too and find ourselves looking to the things of this life for comfort and strength and confidence. We must look to the Lord and build our faith in Him on a day to day basis. The structures of life are built around us by the Lord and He keeps the way of His servants, directing their feet to good things and to true love and devotion to Himself, which results in growing faith.

 Let us keep away for the lies of Satan who would try to take away our faith in God and put it somewhere else. We rest all our cares on the Lord and look to Him for confidence and the strength to carry out our tasks. We do not listen to the flattery, but the Word of God as it comes to us daily. Let us make straight paths for our feet and stay close to the Lord.