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The Bible readings for Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 July are -- Num 27:1-28:31; Ps 37:21-26; Pro 9:1-2; Lk 2:1-20.
Labels: heart, obedience/disobedience
posted by Ps John @ 8:18 AM
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Hi and welcome. Ashfield Baptist Church is a "caring community church sharing God's love". We are very diverse in our nationalities, backgrounds and ages, but united in our desire to grow spiritually and to reach out and help others. Our vision is "to be a body of Christ-like people living out the great commandment and the great commission in the Holy Spirit's power". This blog is mainly for people connected with Ashfield Baptist Church. It has been set up as an "info & chat space" as we start the "THRU IN 2" challenge. This is our program for reading the Bible right through during 2007 & 2008. Many are using the Every Day With Jesus Bible which also has daily devotions from Selwyn Hughes. As we read through the Bible together over these two years, we can use this blog to share insights, stories, reflections, questions etc. The goal is to grow spiritually together. So leave your comments. Together we can help each other grow. Blessings. Ps John. To leave a comment about the readings for a particular day, or to view the comments of others, just click on "comments" at the bottom of the post.
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Instead of just commanding water to come from the rock (as God instructed), Moses struck the rock with his staff (as he had done successfully on a previous occasion at Horeb). We often think it was this act of disobedience that led to his exclusion from the Promised Land. But here in Numbers 27:14, it is recorded that God said to Moses: "Both of you rebelled against My command to show my holiness in their sight at the waters." This matches with what God told Moses at the time of the incident -- "Because you did not trust in me, to show my holiness before the eyes of the Israelites, therefore you shall not bring the assembly into the land that I have given them." (Num 20:12)
It wasn't just Moses' actions that God was looking at, but his heart, and it was there that he detected a sinful attitude. Perhaps we get another clue to what that attitude was in Moses' words just before he struck the rock -- "Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you? (Num 20:10). No acknowledgement of God at all!
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