Numbers 9:23 KJV
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 9:17-23 act really as one thought. They emphasize over and over again that, during the time the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they journeyed when the cloud was taken up and they rested when the cloud abode still. And the passage repeats over and again that Israel kept this charge and commandment of the Lord.
There are plenty of things that Israel did not do correctly.
They murmured against Moses
They refused to believe God at Kadesh Barnea
They got involved with the Midianites through Balaam
They will, all of them over 20 years old, perish in the wilderness
But we never hear of them ever disobeying this command. When the cloud was taken up, they moved and when the cloud abode still, they pitched their tents and kept the charge of the Lord.
Christians are not sinless people. Many of us struggle with the same sins again and again. But one thing should mark God's children; we should be known for following the Lord.
When He, through His preacher, charges us to move, to take an action, to be involved in a ministry, we should do it.
When God calls us to be faithful, to stay by our post, to be in our place in the house of God; the children of God, though nowhere near perfect, should be found faithful.
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Numbers 9:17-23 act really as one thought. They emphasize over and over again that, during the time the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they journeyed when the cloud was taken up and they rested when the cloud abode still. And the passage repeats over and again that Israel kept this charge and commandment of the Lord.
There are plenty of things that Israel did not do correctly.
They murmured against Moses
They refused to believe God at Kadesh Barnea
They got involved with the Midianites through Balaam
They will, all of them over 20 years old, perish in the wilderness
But we never hear of them ever disobeying this command. When the cloud was taken up, they moved and when the cloud abode still, they pitched their tents and kept the charge of the Lord.
Christians are not sinless people. Many of us struggle with the same sins again and again. But one thing should mark God's children; we should be known for following the Lord.
When He, through His preacher, charges us to move, to take an action, to be involved in a ministry, we should do it.
When God calls us to be faithful, to stay by our post, to be in our place in the house of God; the children of God, though nowhere near perfect, should be found faithful.
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