Numbers 26
LIFE AND DEATH
It is interesting to see that seven specific deaths are mentioned through this genealogy in Numbers 26: Dathan, Abiram, Korah, Er, Onan, Nadab and Abihu. If these people had obeyed the Lord, all of them would have been heads of families and had positions of honour and responsibility. But instead they chose to rebel and forfeit what was coming to them. They tried to do things their way rather than God’s way.
It is also interesting to note that there are two specific people mentioned as still being alive after the rest of the community had died. They were Joshua and Caleb.
There is one major difference between these two groups of people. The first group who died did not trust in the LORD or obey him. They disobeyed and did things their own way instead of God’s way. But Joshua and Caleb, who outlived the rest of the children of Israel, were faithful, obedient and trusted in God.
There is no middle ground. We cannot please ourselves and be rewarded by God. The choice is one or the other – life or death. Let’s be more like Joshua and Caleb, and by the grace of God, share in the reward he has promised to those who faithfully serve him.
May our faithfulness and obedience toward God grow this weekend.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
Sharon’s Segment
A Feast.
In this continuation of Sharon’s thoughts on the 23rd Psalm, she contemplates the feast the Shepherd sets before her.
Read it at https://thinkythings.com/sharon/
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