Apr 10, 2014

Numbers 21:8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

Sometimes we have to use unusual ways to get through to people and this was one of those ways where God used a way that seemed odd.

Where do you think the snakes were? They were almost certainly on the ground. Where did people have to look? Up in the air.

God was teaching them to trust Him and not the world; look up at what God has promised and don’t look down at the world.

Just as Peter was OK walking on the water until he looked down at the world. Look up and live!

April 9, 2014

Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.

The Old Testament has some pretty horrifying things happen to people who provoked God, and yet we choose to ignore so much of what has happened!

I know we are living in a time of grace where Christ has already paid the price for our sins, but that will not stop the inevitable happening if we choose to continue ignoring Christ.

We have a wonderful Saviour but we also have a just God who cannot abide “un-repented” sin!

April 8, 2014

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Don’t try to limit God by what you understand or by what you can see and prove.

Man has always tried to prove things through what he can understand, see, feel, touch, and smell or whatever; the problem being that we cannot see everything.

The more we find out about the universe, the more we see how much more there is to it. God’s creation goes far beyond what we can understand.

Have faith in your God. Allow your faith to grow beyond your vision. Allow God to guide you instead of you trying to show Him the way!

April 7, 2014

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Have you stopped and thought about this statement? Everything was made because God said so!

God breathed life into us after creating an amazing and accommodating place for us to live.

Yes we tend to spoil things now and again by breaking things, but that is how we live and learn.

Don’t let the breakages get you down. Look to everything around you and see the glory of God shining bright every day!