Day 5: Numbers 13-36, Deuteronomy 1-5

Wandering Disciple

I've finished my whole first week through reading and recording the Bible over 40 days.

Some verses stuck out to me today. Admittedly not too many of them, it was mostly the Israelites whining about their problems, being face to face with God and wanting to be slaves again because they were too busy romanticizing their past as they wandered around in the desert rebelling against God and the constant cycles of screwing up, getting punished for it, and repenting.

Numbers 15:15- "There shall be one and the same statute both for you of the congregation and for the stranger who is a temporary resident with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord."

Sometimes God's laws don't seem fair in the Bible, looking at it through ignorant gentile eyes. And especially through women's eyes, but the fairness of this verse brought me joy this morning.

Balaam after being scolded by his donkey who spoke to him, he is hired to curse Israel but blesses them instead, and his words still ring true. With Jews being the most blessed and powerful race of people on the planet, he said in Numbers 24:8-9, "God brought Israel forth out of Egypt; Israel has strength like the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his enemies, crushing their bones and piercing them through with his arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion and a lioness, who shall rouse him? Blessed of God is he who blesses you, who prays for and contributes to your welfare an cursed of God is he who curses you who in word, thought, or deed would bring harm upon you."

Today in general, a man's word doesn't man much. In a world full of lairs and selfishness, it doesn't diminish the value God places and will always place on promises. Numbers 30:2 : "If a man vows a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break and profane his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth."

As God's daughter, I long with all my heart to claim this one for myself. Deuteronomy 2:7 "For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked for nothing."

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 "But if from there you will seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you truly seek Him with all your heart and mind and soul and life. When you are in tribulation and all these things come upon you, in the latter days you will turn to the Lord your God and be obedient to His voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers, which He swore to them."