RTW March 5

Keep On With The Plan

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!”
Numbers 20:12

 

 

My Takeaways

Something Old

Don’t ever steal God’s glory, Wendy.

Something New

Even when we disobey God is still God.

Accept the discipline and move on with the plan God has set before me.

Despite my mess ups God continues to:

  • Provide,
  • Protect,
  • Give victory,
  • Give instructions and lead.

Something to Do

Thank you, God, that You are faithful when I fall short.

 

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4 Comments

  1. Amen 🙂 I loved this lesson today Wendy! I love how God is so faithful even when we are disobedient to Him. And that even when we mess up in life, He is still going to love us and tell us to keep moving on with our lives and that plans that He has for us. He will never leave us nor forsake us and I love that promise so much. I don’t have to worry if I mess up that God will leave me and never speak to me again because I am His daughter and He is my Father and He loves me so much no matter what I do. It is so awesome that even though Moses disobeyed God with the rock and the water that God still is faithful to Moses and loves him.

  2. I also struggled with the part that Moses was not allowed to enter the Holy Land after messing up this one time… but as Wendy said: God has secrets not know to anyone and I am not accountable for it, only for what He choses to reveal to me. Still.. I chewed on it long time before I could see it that way. I do see that God is still faithful and loving towards Moses and so He is towards me. Many times I was angry with God for consequences I had to go through due to my own choices. At the time that I made my choices they didn’t seem bad. I truly didn’t know any better at the time because I was not actively searching for God and His will for my life. I am convinced that God took that into consideration before He passed the consequences I had to go through. For He is a just God and cannot let real sin go unnoticed. He had to make me go through these consequences. Through them I got so despaired that I finally sought help and counsel and found my way back to Him, even when I didn’t aim on doing that for I was mad at God and didn’t want to have anything to do with Him anymore. Looking back I see it so clearly now and I am glad that God always knows better and knows what is best for me. This is what I cling to nowadays, when sometimes times get tough. I have enough trust now that He will see me through so it has been all worth it!!! God is still God and God is good and I know the plans He has for me… they are good and not to despair me!! Have a wonderful day all of you!!!

  3. My Takeaways: Sad times again-Miriam dies, Aaron dies and Moses is forbidden to enter into the Promised Land. The Lord sent poisonious snakes and many people were bitten and died. A lot to process in todays reading. By the way wasn’t the Edoms descended from Esau and the Israelite descended from Jacob? Two brothers who didn’t get along, now the nation’s that are a result of them, can’t get it together either.

    Something Old: What really happened in the wilderness all those years? The Bible doesn’t really give us a lot of details. Though, I was sad for Moses, I must remember that he showed unbelief in God when he struck the rock, not once, but twice. His actions showed a lack of respect toward God and a lack of reverence toward God. The same things that angered him so many times with the Israelites. Remember what Luke 12:48 says “But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” Don’t you bet Moses knew this. He realized the responsibility that he had. He knew God’s judgement was just.

    Something New: The snake in the wilderness Numbers 21:7-9. Jesus Christ came to bring a fuller meaning to this. My salvation happens when I look up to Jesus, believing he will save me. Compare what Jesus says in John 3:14, 15 to this. The Israelites were bitten by snakes. Christians are bitten by sin. At first the Israelites felt little pain from their bites, then intense suffering. Christians feel little pain at first by their sins, then it turns to intense suffering. The snakes poison brought physical death to the Israelites. Sins bring spiritual death to Christians. The bronze snake was lifted up in the wilderness. Christ was lifted up on the cross. The Israelites could look to the snake to spare one’s life. Christians can look to Christ who saves us from eternal death. It was not the snake that healed the people, but their belief that God could heal them.

    Something To Do: I must keep my eyes on Jesus. I will stumble if I look away from him to stare at myself or at the circumstances surrounding me. I should be running for Christ, not myself, and I must always keep him in sight.
    Hebrews 12:5-6 “… my child don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”

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