- Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. Numbers 25:11 – God’s jealousy is focused on Him wanting us to serve Him and only Him and when we give the worship that should only be directed to Him elsewhere, that’s when His jealousy is flamed. Phinehas was said to be jealous with God’s jealousy. It meant that he want all worship to only go to God, no where else. What God wanted he wanted. This is the heart we should seek to have. One where when we see worship going anywhere else other than God we feel a fire of this type of jealousy rising within us. Where our desire is to make the only one worshipped in life the God who alone deserves worship. Start today by the examining your own life to see if worship is placed in anyway elsewhere other than God. Let the fire of jealousy burn there first then seek to help those around you to shift the entirety of their worship to God. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1441
- Numbers 25 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. 2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. Numbers 25:1-3 – After we see God speak His blessing over the people of Israel within the previous chapters, immediately we see the Israelites turn away from worship of Him to worship the false gods of Moab. The women of Moab led the men of Israel astray through lust and caused them to befriend and worship their idols. Something we don’t see until Numbers 31 is that this idea of enticing the Israel men like this to defeat them came from Balaam (Numbers 31:16). God wouldn’t curse Israel, so Balaam gave the idea to seduce the people of Israel away from God with lust and idolatry. Understand our story has an enemy like this too. Someone who wants our worship off of the Lord and our lives lived out for anything other than Jesus. This enemy, Satan, will entice us with every tool he has for his goal is us far away from the Lord. He doesn’t want us in the promise land of the Lord and he doesn’t want us experiencing the fullness that comes within a life after Jesus. Accept the truth you have an enemy and accept the reality he is at work in your story. If then something is pulling you away from things that you know are holy unto the Lord (like pulling you away from church, pulling you away from Christian community, pulling you away from the study of His Word), be willing to pause and really seek out if there is in anyway the enemy’s hand in this. For maybe, after even just a little detective work, you may come to find out that what scripture says in Ephesians 6:12 about our enemy not being flesh and bone is true, that the church and/or Christian you feel at odds with may actually not be your enemy. Don’t let the enemy win in your story. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2306
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