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I’m thinking now of the point made in Bible Basics concerning the baptized believer who, after being baptized, found himself in the wilderness going towards the promised land - this is mainly in connection with the children of God after being taken across the Red Sea (an illustration of their baptism) by the Almighty, and as they took their journey to the promised land (in the wilderness), so do we who, by His grace, embrace the saving hands of the invisible God.  What shall we say then?  Are we safe ‘in Christ’ into whom we have been baptized, until he returns, or us reaching the promised land?  “Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant” ( Kings 8:56).  We have a task ahead of us and we must not relax from the trek.  God will not change His promises (Eze. 12:25;  Matt. 5:18).  Paul wrote to the Philippians, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do:  forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (3:13,14).  Forgetting the past is not all that easy, but God is faithful.
Bro. Wonder Wornyo