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Reading:
Numbers 14:9 – 14:12

That’s the title of our next Sunday School lesson (August 9, 2009). The following verse fragments caught my attention in my reading this morning:

“We are well able to overcome it” ().

“We were in our own sight” ().

“And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land?” ().

“Let us return into Egypt” ().

“If the LORD delight in us” ().

I’ve got to do better at rejecting faithless negativity and at embracing faithful, faith-driven positivity. (Did I just coin a new word?!)

[The Scriptures say in Numbers 14:9 -- Only rebel not...neither fear]
from Numbers 14:9

Reading:
1 Peter 5

What the devil is up to today:

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (8).

What I am up to today?

“Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world” (9).

What God is up to today!

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (10).

Unless I remember — continually, consciously — life consists of far more than I can see, I frequently will be lunchmeat for the roaring lion. And not only I, but also those for whom I am responsible — primarily my wife and children and, as patriarch, grandchildren.

Let me also remember — continually, consciously — to live by God’s grace. May I put behind me my careless, self-sufficient, ego-centric ways of dealing with life.

[The Scriptures say in 1 Peter 5:1 -- A partaker of the glory that shall be revealed]
from 1 Peter 5:1