The Chapter-A-Day thread.

[brinny]

Yes, that's a good comparison....vows are meant to be solemn.

 

[bcmom]

Re: Numbers 30

Now i see why we gotta be careful with vows......they're the same as "promises" and God takes them super seriously. That's a sobering thought.

Re: Numbers 30

Now i see why we gotta be careful with vows......they're the same as "promises" and God takes them super seriously. That's a sobering thought.

Well think of wedding vows, we say them before God and they are to be taken very seriously.. Though I do think many don't take them seriously enough these days and they don't feel they are saying before God but that's another discussion.

 

[bcmom]

This one's a little confusing....the children of Gad and of Reuben do not want to go over into the land which the Lord had given them....i'm not sure if this is a dis-trust of the Lord or a willfulness on their part, or if this tests the patience of the Lord. I'm wondering if this is going to deprive them of the blessings the Lord intended for them....

Interesting chapter.

Here's a very enlightening commentary. It was a sin of complicity on the pRt of Reuben and Gad; they were willing to settle for good enough and not Devine God's glory as promised. That really resonates with me. Before I accepted Christ as my saviour, I was willing to settle for good enough, I didn't want God's Devine glory. It took reading the book of Revelations- in a day, I couldn't put the Bible down, I had a strong need to read it- for me to realize everything I thought I knew about God, death and life, and life after death was all wrong. I asked for God's forgiveness for my sins and for Him to be my Lord and Saviour - that's my testimony, in a nutshell. Thanks for listening.
http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/guz/view.cgi?book=nu&chapter=032

 

[brinny]

Beautiful testimony, thank you for sharing it.

The commentary really does clarify what "settling for good enough" is....thank you for posting the link.

 

[bcmom]

Yes, that's a good comparison....vows are meant to be solemn.

True. I am sadden that people don't seem to feel that way anymore about their wedding vows

 

[brinny]

yes, it is sad......ev'rything is "throw-away".....

 

[bcmom]

Beautiful testimony, thank you for sharing it.

The commentary really does clarify what "settling for good enough" is....thank you for posting the link.

My pleasure to share my testimony. I would like to hear yours sometime, if you want to share it.

Yes it is a good commentary. I like David Guzik's commentaries better than the other that I've read because he brings it to "how does this apply to me now?" Or at least that's how I feel. I could give links to a couple of commentaries and you could read more than one if you'd like? I don't mind. I usually read at least two before I post one.
God Bless

 

[brinny]

my testimony is a long one...lots of wrestling and "chapters" of many kinds....i was an absolute mess in more ways than i can count....i'll post it maybe if i can get my thoughts together....

yes, the commentaries by David Guzik are edifying and clarify much. Thank you.

 

[bcmom]

my testimony is a long one...lots of wrestling and "chapters" of many kinds....i was an absolute mess in more ways than i can count....i'll post it maybe if i can get my thoughts together....

yes, the commentaries by David Guzik are edifying and clarify much. Thank you.

I told the short version of my testimony. The long version has many chapters too.

 

[brinny]

Would love to read it (((hug)))

Thank God for His inexplicable grace that He was relentless with me.....that His patience is beyond our understanding.....

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+33&version=NIV

 

[bcmom]

I needed more insight into this chapter so I read this commentary.; I found it clarified things for me...
Numbers 33 - David Guzik Commentary on the Bible

 

[brinny]

Today's chapter is https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+33&version=NIV

Wow! THIS is God's own history book, written by Moses.

 

[brinny]

I needed more insight into this chapter so I read this commentary.; I found it clarified things for me...
Numbers 33 - David Guzik Commentary on the Bible

This is an excellent commentary, especially the detail given on why the Caananites needed to be driven out totally.

 

[bcmom]

This is an excellent commentary, especially the detail given on why the Caananites needed to be driven out totally.

I agree. I have found all the commentaries to be helpful. I now understand why God things seemed harsh; He did it for the good of His people.

 

[brinny]

Yes, and it WAS a necessity.

Who would'a thought that reading and studying of all things, the book of Numbers, would be so edifying and enlightening? Awesome!

 

[bcmom]

Yes, and it WAS a necessity.

Who would'a thought that reading and studying of all things, the book of Numbers, would be so edifying and enlightening? Awesome!

So true.

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+34

Here's a map of the area as it would have been at that time...

 

[brinny]

AWESOME map! Thank you.

Chapter 34 reminds me of this verse:

"the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just." ~Proverbs 13:22

Interesting that these tribes have already received their inheritance and will not cross over into the land of Canaan:

14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:

15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

 

[bcmom]

I found the map when I was searching for today's chapter and I felt God was leading me to add so I did.