Numbers 24:11 KJV
Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought
to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from
honour.
Balak thought
he could promote Balaam and that, by obeying God, the Lord had prevented Balaam
from reward. In fact, Balak had a much too elevated sense of himself. He could
so no more than give a man a few trinkets of fleeting wealth and offer a few
years of human exhalation. Everything he could offer was temporary and subject
to the corruption of time and taking of thieves. What God offered was far more
substantial.
Balaam is not a
great example for us to follow. While the Old Testament does not expand on it,
the New Testament tells us he ran greedily after reward. But we do see in his
story the perception the world has of the faith. They see Christianity as
holding us back from pleasure and gain. The Bible tells us Christianity
exchanges temporary trinkets for eternal reward.
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