Category Archives: 2010
- Moses’ and Aaron’s failure centered on some words that they spoke impulsively (Num 20:10). It all happened so fast, and before they realized it, they had said something that they would regret for the rest of their life.
- This did not just happen to them. Is this not frequently our experience? So many times, we say something, and we just wish we can take it back. But it is too late — like a wind that cannot be caught — words spoken cannot be unspoken again; and we have to bear its consequences.
- We live in an age where communication is easy, may be too easy. Back in the old days, it took us some time to write a letter and to get the letter through the mail. This gave us more time to think and to say things properly. But today, we receive an email, and we write a reply, and we hit the send button. And that email, containing all our mindless comments, could have been sent to many people. To make things worse, that same email could be forwarded to many, many, more people.
- “If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man.” (James 3:2) How true!
- In Numbers 27 we have the five daughters of Zelophehad who demonstrated their faith by requesting for something which God has promised. They did this, even though they are not quite qualified, even when there is no tangible sign that they will ever receive. What faith! As a result, new regulation was given, new leader was chosen, and new way was taken — and the rest was history.
- On the one hand God is sovereign; on the other hand, God gives us the freedom to exercise our will to choose. He honors our choices. So many times in the Bible we have seen the Almighty God has bended His rules because He is so delighted in our choice for Him!
- Never belittle your choices. One never knows what great things will be accomplished just by our choices — I am sure Ruth did not know, at the time of her choice, that she would become an ancestor of Jesus. (On the contrary, Esau did not know, when he sold his birthright, that one day he would actually lost the blessing of the eldest son from his father). None of our choices for Him or against Him, however small or insignificant, will ever escape His notice — God sees and in due time will reward us. May we all choose wisely!
