How much does God need to prove Himself to you? How many times does He have to be faithful? How often does His word need to be verified before you accept it as true for your life? God has an amazingly consistent and reliable track record in dealing with people. Yet we continue to doubt Him, to worry, and to hesitate to obey.
Our relationship with God is based on faith. Without faith, we cannot please Him. Yet God continually stands by His word and proves time and time again that He is trustworthy. It seems that God cannot do enough for some people to finally trust Him.
No people had ever witnessed the amazing miracles that the Israelites had. God had never made such amazing promises to a people before. So much hung in the balance of their belief. Yet their faith would falter. They would hesitate to trust the God who had proven to be wholly trustworthy.
God loves us with an infinite love, but He generally will not force His will upon us. He will invite is to trust Him and to obey. For those who refuse to believe, God’s promises will remain unrealized. We will only be able to wonder what our lives might have become, had we only believed.