Skip to main content

Numbers 32:1 - You want to do what!! - Day 142

Good afternoon saints in Christ,

We have heard a lot about unity and union from a political perspective over the last day.  Today's devotional is about unity from spiritual perspective.  It will be important for us to understand the differences in the weeks and months ahead.  For example, what is the source of political unity and what is the source of spiritual unity?

Blessings,

Jeff

Here we go again.  Moses must have been tearing his hair out.  This new generation had grown up in the wilderness because their parents and grand parents were disobedient.  While Gad and Reuben were not refusing to cross the Jordan, their desire to have the land outside of Canaan proper must have been discouraging to the other tribes.  

Notice that Moses does not take this request to God.  We have seen other times when questions about the application of the law were taken to the Lord.  Neither do we see discipline from God for this agreement.  This made me think about what exactly was the "Promised Land"

Went back to Genesis 15:17-21 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,  the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.” 

God promised Abram a lot of land, not just the strip between the Jordan the Mediterranean.   That strip was certainly the starting point.  So Gilead and the rest of the land east of the Jordan was also part of the promise.  

Instruction - What does God expect? It is sad that Q-Anon has co-opted the phrase "Where we go one, we go all".  Or as the 3 musketeers said "all for one, one for all".  Each tribe within Israel was affected by the actions of the others.  So too, the body of Christ.  Romans 12:4-5.  For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Each believer and each body of believers needs to consider how their words and deeds affect the rest of the body.  

Thanksgiving - Your glory is over all the earth, not just my little part.  You are the King of kings.  The Son is given to the church as the head of rule and authority.  The whole world is the Promised Land to the Son.

Confession - a very myopic vision of the body of Christ.  

Petition - Make me aware of what the head of the church desires for the Body, not what I think is best for TCCS and me.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Revelation 22:3-5 Final and eternal restoration - Day 365

Dear saints in the Lord, Congratulations!  You made it.  We have been through much turmoil in the last year ('20-'21).  But God is faithful to His promises.  I trust that you have been blessed in your reading and have drawn closer to God.   Since we didn't get the blog up and running at the beginning of the challenge, I am going to go back and post entries to cover that first month or so.   Blessings, Jeff Nothing accursed in the city of God, the new Jerusalem.  The presence of sin will be gone.  I am working on memorizing Westminster Shorter Catechism and currently on question 82.  Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God but does daily break them in thought, word and deed. I think our passage today points to the truth of this question.  Do you notice how this answer is not exactly the same as the question. "Any man" bec...
Post a Comment
Read more

Malachi 2:10-12 Here we go again!! Day 363

Good afternoon friends, As we draw to the end of the Old Testament, we see that Judah has rebuilt the temple and the walls of Jerusalem, but they are following in the footsteps of faithless fathers and not in the footsteps of Abraham and ultimately God.  The exile was a low point, but now a new low is about to happen.  The prophetic voice has once again become warning and not encouraging. Faithful reading and preaching of the word is all that keeps us from losing our way.  May we be faithful in our generation. Blessings, Jeff I am sure I have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.  The section summary, chapter and verse are not in the original language.  They are all rather modern inventions to help us.  For example, the section title here is "Judah profaned the Covenant".  That is OK as far as it goes, but which Covenant?  So let's take a look. Observations Starts with 3 questions but who is asking the questions and to whom are they addre...
Post a Comment
Read more

2 Chronicles 33:7-9 Thoughts on Davidic covenant - Day 362

Good morning faithful readers, The finish line is in sight!!!  One of the themes of scripture is that God is a covenant keeping God.  There are many between God and man. Adam, Noah, David are examples.  Covenants are more than promises.  They are made between a superior and inferior with conditions for each side and blessing and penalties based on keeping the conditions.  These are covenants of works which fallen man was unable to keep.  Thanks be to God that the Father made a covenant of grace with Christ, the second Adam, which he fully kept. Blessings, Jeff The promise in v8 was made to David when he had planned to build the temple and God promised to build him a house forever. (2 Sam 7:10).  Seems like there are only two possibilities about Manasseh's disobedience.  Either he knew of this covenant that God had made with his 13th great grandfather and chose to disregard it, or he didn't know of it and was unaware of the penalty.  Let's con...
Post a Comment
Read more