February 19 You Need to Trust Him

We Need to Trust Him
Read Numbers 1-3

Num 1:1-5 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. 3 You and Aaron are to number by their divisions all the men in Israel twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army. 4 One man from each tribe, each the head of his family, is to help you. 5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you.”
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Num 1:53 The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the Testimony.

DO YOU note God’s precision? Do you see the date this was written and the very specific instructions for a census to be taken? He tells who is to do this and how it is to be done. He also tells who is to care for the tabernacle of the Testimony. God’s way is holy—pure—and precise. When he speaks, you and I need to listen.
But we have such a problem with that, don’t we? We don’t want to trust him that we should love the unlovable, give to the poor, tithe our income, be faithful to our spouse, worship him only…and so many more good ways he commands us.
Why must we struggle so when God has clearly shown us right from wrong? I don’t know—I think we need to trust him.


Pause and Consider: are you ready to listen?