February 22, 2011 Join the Feast

Join the Feast
Read Numbers 10-12

Numbers 11:4-6 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost — also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”

THE DESERT was a most unfriendly place for God to send his people, don’t you think? Although they were slaves in Egypt, the Hebrews ate vegetables from the garden, fish from the sea, and meat from their herds. But now they had a paste-tasting manna.
Worse, they lived in tents. And they had a bunch of new rules to follow. Freedom? Give me slavery.
But wait a minute, the God of the universe is at work. He is the freedom giver, manna provider, rule maker. What’s he doing?
When we check out the bible, I can think of few, if any, who entered into God’s “born again” freedom easily. God is so far above us, we can never get close to him unless we walk through the “valley of the shadow of death”—unless we deal with loss and learn to trust him.
For on the other side of the valley is a feast! There is a cup overflowing. There is goodness and mercy all the days of your life. (check out Psalm 23).
God calls you into his freedom for an eternity of joy and wonder, an eternity of feasting. To get there, we must learn to trust him, lean on him, love and worship him. Join the feast forever!


Pause and Consider: what “feast”—blessing—has God given to you this day?