"Informed on Location"

"Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
(Psalms 95:8)
This is the proof of our being His children; not that God needs anything proven to Him, but it is we that need to be tested on what we believe. They say that the children of Israel had an issue with getting Egypt out of them; God delivered them from Egypt, but Egypt was still a part of them. There is sometimes a very fine line between being delivered and being set free; a person can be delivered from something or someone, and still be tormented or influenced by whatever it was that held them captive. The word "provocation" basically means strife or contention; this is where there is no comparison whatsoever between two different ideas, yet the two are compared against one another as if it does not matter. It could be easy to understand how this might work, if we could only see this taking place from God's point of view. On the one hand there is the power of whatever it is that coming against us or is causing us to be tempted, and on the other hand, you have the power of God. We know which power is greater; I mean, if we can believe anything written in the Bible, then we can believe in the greatness of God's power. Making it personal is a whole different story. To make it personal, means that the power displayed in those Scriptures is meant for me and my situation. To get a better idea of what this might look like, we could examine the response in the children of Israel to every situation where they were brought up against something, starting with the first one, before they crossed the Red Sea. The issue is brought out in Genesis 14:11, as the children of Israel are backed up against the Red Sea, and Pharaoh's armies are approaching, they respond by saying, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?" There was much more said, but that was the main response, the one that matters the most. We have been saved for a new location, it's called Heaven! Nothing here much matters any more, because nothing here is going to be taken with us, and nothing here can hold us back. Besides that, if God says that He is going to bring us to our new home, then it's God's doing that going to get us there; there is nothing here that can take the place of God's doing what He has promised...
"And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn't it the people Moses led out of Egypt? And who made God angry for forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose corpses lay in the wilderness? And to whom was God speaking when he took an oath that they would never enter his rest? Wasn't it the people who disobeyed him? So we see that because of their unbelief they were not able to enter his rest. God's promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news -that God has prepared this rest -has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn't share the faith of those who listened to God." (Hebrews 3:16-4:2) NLT