He Was Disgusted With Them

He Was Disgusted With Them

“For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, and said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know My ways.” Ps. 95:10.

Israel had forty years of grace in the desert where God blessed them with the most amazing signs and wonders, even while He was disgusted with them during that time. They did not turn their hearts in love toward God and His ways in the midst of all His care and goodness.

This is really something we must pay attention to. There are many people who are satisfied with a good life on a human level. They reckon that God’s pleasure and blessings are over their lives. Perhaps they even praise God for the amazing acts of healing they have experienced.

Nevertheless, the truth is that God, with all His goodness, cannot have His way or His will with them. His goal with Israel was to lead them into rest in the glorious land of Canaan, but they could not enter in because of unbelief and disobedience.

In the new covenant we have the greatest and most precious promises of partaking of an overcoming life and divine nature. 2 Pet. 1:3-4. However, we see that from among the seven churches, only a few had attained to an overcoming life and divine nature during the time of grace that had been given to them; thus God was not at all pleased with them.

Most people are deceived by their feelings, as were those in Laodicea. For example, we can meet people who have been divorced and are married again, which is contrary to God’s laws. They have a good relationship on a human level, and they consider this as evidence that God has sanctioned their relationship. They praise God and appear to be happy in the midst of God being disgusted with them.

To be given a time of grace is a serious matter. Let us be powerfully warned by the example of Israel.

The intention is that God’s goodness shall lead us to repentance. Rom. 2:4. Christ has given us His commandments so that we shall keep them diligently. Only by keeping them do we have His living and eternal blessing over us.

In this way, we learn to know God and His ways, so that we can walk in them with joy. When Christ returns, we will be well acquainted with the ways of humility and self-abasement, of truth and justice, and of love and patience. We have learned to know God, and what is even greater, we are known by Him. Gal. 4:9.

Let us not go astray in our hearts so that our desire is for earthly things, because then He will be disgusted with us and will say, “I do not know you!”