- And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the Lord. Numbers31:54 – Not a man lost in battle and an abundance of provision left for the people. That is something to be thankful for and that’s exactly what Moses and Eleazar were, thankful. And they expressed that gratitude by bringing their offering to God. If you then were to take a count of everything you still have after all the battles you’ve gone through would it be something worth showing God some gratitude over? Maybe you have lost some in the process and the provision afterwards wouldn’t be considered an abundance. You though are still here, still standing, still have provision for the day, still have loved ones in your story, and still have the promise of eternal life with Christ. We really do have so much to be thankful over. Let’s be sure God knows our level of gratitude by the way we give back to Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1447
- Numbers 31 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO Then the officers who were over the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—went to Moses 49 and said to him, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one is missing.” Numbers 31:48-49 – A massive battle takes place with the people of Israel in our chapter against the nation of Midian. Why did Israel go up against Midian? In Numbers 25 we see how the women of Midian were used to lure the men of Israel away from God because Balaam couldn’t curse them, and all this was based of the directions given to them by Balaam (see Numbers 31:16). Notice though the message of the commanders in our passage, not one man is missing from our side. In their 40 year journey, when they turned to sin, hundreds and thousands of people perished, but in this chapter we see Israel following the directions the Lord gives and what’s the end result? Not one is missing. Rejection and disobedience to the Lord will lead to our death, but a faithful obedience and acceptance of the Lord’s way will lead to life. Don’t be deceived by the lures of this world seeking to tell you a different message. The beauty of scripture is we get to see story after story of people making both choices, God or the world. We see over and over the same result of life when the choice was the Lord and death when the choice was the world. We can be naïve and believe our story will be different than the hundreds of generations before us, or our story will be different now this time we turn to sin rather than how it worked out last time, but the truth is our story will end the same. When we turn from the Lord and turn to sin, we’ll find despair and death. In Jesus though we can find hope and life. Make the choice we see Israel made in chapter 31 to finally follow through with the direction the Lord gave them. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2312
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