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HAS SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS: Devotion for Tuesday July 12, 2016
Text:
Numbers 11:16 – 20
Memory
verse: Numbers 11:17 - "Then I will come down and talk with you there. I
will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and
they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it
yourself alone.”
To solve the immediate problem raised by
Moses, God ordered him to constitute an order of seventy elders, either by a
selection from the existing staff of elders or by the appointment of new ones,
to be empowered to assist him by their collective wisdom and experience in the
onerous cares of government. The Jewish writers say that this was the origin of
the Sanhedrin, or supreme appellate court of their nation which also consists
of 70 men. God’s promise of coming down was not in the physical form. The
spirit God talked about in 11:17 means the gifts and influences of the Spirit
(Num. 27:18; Joel 2:28; Jn. 7:39; 1 Cor. 14:12). He also gave solution to the
need of meat they people cried for (11:18–20). Unfortunately, God purposed to
give them meat to eat until it become loathsome to them. “What people
impatiently and wickedly desire, God sometimes suffers them to have, and to
abuse to their ruin” so says Family Bible Note.
Our God has answers and solutions to all our
problems. This should strengthen our faith in Him. What are the problems you
are currently facing and thinking that there is no way out? God has answers to
them. Is it in your career, school, business, office, etc? God is ever willing
to answer you. The meat was loathsome to them because they despised the
Lord who was among them, and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we
ever come up out of Egypt?” This was a mark of ingratitude. Do you despise God
simply because you are not happy with God? Repent today.
Food
for Thought: "For
with God nothing will be impossible” – Luke 1:37
Prayer: In times of difficulties
and crises, help me, O Lord, to look up unto you because you alone can solve
all the problems of life.
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