365 Reflections

In the midst of the grumbling of the Israelites and watching the judgment of God in the wilderness for those who formerly complained, Moses begins to lose both his patience and his faith. He loses his patience earlier in Numbers 11: Numbers 11:11–12 (ESV) Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers? But what we see God speak back to Moses reveals something more tragic that has transpired in him because of the consistent complaints of the people he has experienced. God first tells Moses He will supply enough meat for them to eat for a month, until they gag on it. (The warning here is that sometimes God will give us what we demand and it will hurt only us.) But back to M...

God creates the world in the most interesting way you can imagine. Why such detail? Why does the Creation account unfold as it does? There is a pattern and a purpose to it all. The first three days of creation - God separates and forms. The second three days - God correspondingly fills the space He formed with related objects. Day 1 - Light separated from Darkness. Day 4 - Stars and lights in the universe fill that form. Day 2 - The atmosphere and oceans. Day 5 - Birds and Sea Creatures. Day 3 - Land and vegetation. Day 6 - Beasts and Man. The pattern: God forms then fills. In the Old Testament it was the same way... God had the people form the tabernacle after the pattern God shows Moses. Once it is formed, God fills it with His presence. In the New Testament - Jesus forms the Church, then God fills it with His Spirit and people come filling it up. God is in the business of forming and filling. And He does that with us. He forms you with the family and story you ...