Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Numbers 34:2 and Luke 1:79 "Light in My Darkness" (March 22)
Here it is...the Promised Land. Over 2 million Israelites swayed and swooned in the wilderness. Even 603,550 soldiers marched on Canaan with confidence and never made it. Here stands a few thousand who did, who trusted in their darkness. Caleb and Joshua were two of them. They didn't trust in a cloud to lead them by day and night. They trusted a Person Who was committed to making them holy, way down deep inside. Luke 1:79 ~ "The sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” This was more about a place in their hearts than a piece of land. The sun rises this day and may our Good God show us what emanates from deep within us.
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“Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.” May my first words each day be blessing God.
ReplyDeleteImagining the old daddy’s eyes as he looked deep into his son’s eyes and spoke the blessing of Luke 1:76-79. The first words to be uttered in 400 years-a real prophetic word from God to His people and from a remembered dad to his promised son:
It’s still the song of our hearts.
“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us[a] from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
He saves us from our enemies, gives light to those who sit in darkness, in death, and guides our feet to walk in peace. Such tender mercy of our God!
I had those thoughts too Bev..Caleb and Joshua had a relationship, they believed God, followed Him, not Moses and not a cloud or fire. They had faith in the one who would "visit and redeem His people, raise up a horn of Salvation.....because of His tender mercy." (Luke 1:68,69,78)
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