Making a Differencewith Pastor Phil Erickson

Feb 28th The Saturday Morning Post – All In The Family

Today’s Passage – Numbers 34 – 36 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click here to view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)

(Second Milers also read – 1 Corinthians 5 – 8; Proverbs 28; Psalms 141 – 145

Read the “Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

(Numbers 36:1-5) And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: (2) And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. (3) And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. (4) And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. (5) And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.

Good morning In today’s reading we see a problem in the tribe of Joseph. The problem is with a man named Zelophehad. He had no sons, only daughters. This meant that if they married a man from one of the tribes other than the tribe of Joseph, their inheritance would go to the other tribe. The tribe of Joseph would lose part of what God had given them. But God already knew about it, and already had the solution to the problem…

(Numbers 36:6-7) This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. (7) So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

They were to keep it all in the family. Sometimes we can only see so far that the solution to our problems seem very difficult and unobtainable. Remember that the Lord already has the solution, and is waiting to give it to you. All you need do is ask.

Peace.