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Thank you for stopping by. Welcome to The Road2Wholeness Blog, and for taking the stroll with us today. You've landed in the New Blog Series The JAWW. In this blog series you'll be interrupted by Life of LAB (Our 7 Day Quick LAB Series beginning also today).
So what is The JAWW? It's God's Judgment, God's Authority, God's Will, and God's Word.
And how does it size up to the Trap-Jaw of an Ant whose mechanics allows it to eject, escape, kill, or maim? Is God's judgment hanging in the balance of grace? Has His authority been usurped by a peaceful prince? Is His will under the gun of free will, and is His word on a respirator in our busy lives?
Did you know that the jaw of an ant contracts at sixty miles per hour? In fact there are two muscles in place to keep the jaw apart when it's not engaged. One of the things that makes the jaw so dangerous is that it tends to snap shut; at which time the ant can catapult or even fling itself backwards in order to escape a threat. In an attempt to capture the speed of the trap-jaw, researchers needed to use a camera able to take 50,000 frames per second. Stop and just consider all of this. A God who can create such abilities in an ant for the ant's own benefit is loving and kind enough to slow down the reflexes of His own JAWW. And how does He do it? He does it with none other than understanding.
Did you know that by your understanding and obedience you have the power to keep the JAWW of God from snapping shut? Let's look at Numbers 11: 4-33. This is a story of the Israelites in the wilderness. During this time God was providing them with manna which would fall from the sky. At this time the people began to complain and ask for meat. They began to recall the foods they were eating while in Eygpt.
In Numbers 11: 18-20, it reads "The Lord heard you when you wailed, 'If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Eygpt!' Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat it. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month.. until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it.. because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before Him, saying, 'Why did we ever leave Eygpt?'".
This is an interesting story; one that perhaps needed understanding versus obedience. It's interesting because the Lord actually supplied the Israelites with what they were asking for. Yet, Scripture says that before they could consume the meat, and while the meat was still between their teeth, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague. There they buried the people who had craved other food.
Here we see the JAWW of God as it snapped shut. Stop and consider again. Picture yourself in the wilderness on the way to God's promise. It's no doubt you're in a wilderness, but there's a grain falling from the sky that you are able to use to make bread. You know and remember all the delicious foods you were eating before you set out on your journey, but with the promise ahead of you, the miracle all around you, and the testimony of how God rescued you within you; how suddenly would your faith fail? How soon before you decide that you were better off before? Examining another person's journey makes it easy, but it's a wilderness; a jungle, and as the stakes increases the commands do too. Do you stretch your understanding, or do you turn back? Most important of all these questions is, "Do you die on the way?" Can you see that manna falling from the sky is a bigger miracle than a flood of fishes everywhere?
In this story, God's Judgment is one that we can apply to our lives; one we must demand of ourselves and others. It is even one we must ask of God. Next time you pray, say, "God do as you are pleased to do".
We pick back up with the series The JAWW in December, after "Life of LAB". We hope that you will join us for the next 7 Days.
Remember to go within that you may never go without. The God within you awaits you. Until our paths collide again, I wish you... Peace, Love, Life, and Complete Wholeness in Christ.
In Service,
NaTisha Renee Williams
In Numbers 11: 18-20, it reads "The Lord heard you when you wailed, 'If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Eygpt!' Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will eat it. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month.. until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it.. because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before Him, saying, 'Why did we ever leave Eygpt?'".
This is an interesting story; one that perhaps needed understanding versus obedience. It's interesting because the Lord actually supplied the Israelites with what they were asking for. Yet, Scripture says that before they could consume the meat, and while the meat was still between their teeth, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague. There they buried the people who had craved other food.
Here we see the JAWW of God as it snapped shut. Stop and consider again. Picture yourself in the wilderness on the way to God's promise. It's no doubt you're in a wilderness, but there's a grain falling from the sky that you are able to use to make bread. You know and remember all the delicious foods you were eating before you set out on your journey, but with the promise ahead of you, the miracle all around you, and the testimony of how God rescued you within you; how suddenly would your faith fail? How soon before you decide that you were better off before? Examining another person's journey makes it easy, but it's a wilderness; a jungle, and as the stakes increases the commands do too. Do you stretch your understanding, or do you turn back? Most important of all these questions is, "Do you die on the way?" Can you see that manna falling from the sky is a bigger miracle than a flood of fishes everywhere?
In this story, God's Judgment is one that we can apply to our lives; one we must demand of ourselves and others. It is even one we must ask of God. Next time you pray, say, "God do as you are pleased to do".
We pick back up with the series The JAWW in December, after "Life of LAB". We hope that you will join us for the next 7 Days.
Remember to go within that you may never go without. The God within you awaits you. Until our paths collide again, I wish you... Peace, Love, Life, and Complete Wholeness in Christ.
In Service,
NaTisha Renee Williams
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