Numbers 11, another of these interesting passages where things seem a little awry. There is a list of 70 Elders who are supposed to go to the Tabernacle to receive the Spirit of God. Two of them don't go. What would you expect? Punishment? Perhaps. Lose their blessing? Likely. What we actually see is not only God blessing these two people with something that was theirs despite their disobedience but then Moses realisation that what had happened was so good that the legality of it was not an issue, " I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!".
Numbers 12 and this story of Miriam and Aaron who have criticised Moses and God's famous response, "So why were you not afraid to criticize my servant Moses?". Miriam is struck with leprosy and if that represents uncleanness then we need to be very careful who we pass judgement on!
Numbers 13 and one of my favourite passages of the spies sent into the Promised Land to check it out and who return with scare stories. Only Joshua and Caleb believe the words of God who told them they would take the land and only these two ever see the Promised Land in person. So simple yet so profound: If God tells us to do something or that something will happen, how on earth can we ever doubt that He is able to do it? Because we still think it is all about us?
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