” ‘Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth’ – let Israel now say – ‘Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.’ The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. May all…
Month: November 2019
Numbers 14
This chapter is not Israel’s finest moment. Ten of the twelve spies reported the Canaan could not be invaded, and what appears to be the entire nation rebels against God (except Moses, Aaron, Joshua and Caleb). Unfortunately, there are far too many topics here to cover them all (eg. intercessory prayer, intermittent obedience, accepting responsibility,…
Psalm 128
“Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table….
Numbers 13
In this chapter, which is really part 1 of 2, God commands 12 spies to be sent into Canaan (the promised land) to asses the land and its inhabitants. “Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, ‘Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,…