Reflecting God - The Globa; Church of the Nazare's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Thursday, 5 April 2018 – Embrace Holy Living - Repercussions by Sean Carr - Numbers 12:10-16

Reflecting God - The Globa; Church of the Nazare's Foundry Publishing House in Kansas City, Missouri, United States for Thursday, 5 April 2018 – Embrace Holy Living - Repercussions by Sean Carr - Numbers 12:10-16

"Repercussions" by Sean Carr - Numbers 12:10 But when the cloud was removed from above the tent, Miryam had tzara‘at, as white as snow. Aharon looked at Miryam, and she was as white as snow. 11 Aharon said to Moshe, “Oh, my lord, please don’t punish us for this sin we committed so foolishly. 12 Please don’t let her be like a stillborn baby, with its body half eaten away when it comes out of its mother’s womb!” 13 Moshe cried to Adonai, “Oh God, I beg you, please, heal her!” (Maftir) 14 Adonai answered Moshe, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she hide herself in shame for seven days? So let her be shut out of the camp for seven days; after that, she can be brought back in.” 15 Miryam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not travel until she was brought back in. 16 Afterwards, the people went on from Hatzerot and camped in the Pa’ran Desert.
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So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again.
The Bible has many examples of the sin of a single person affecting the whole of the community. The sin of Achan resulted in defeat and death. David's sin kept him from completing the Temple and thus denying a generation the presence of God in temple worship. Paul makes it clear in numerous epistles that we are part of a body, and suffering by one results in suffering for all, and glorification for one results in glory for all.
The sin is especially consequential when it comes from a position of leadership. Miriam was the one who faced the consequences of becoming leprous, yet the entire nation was affected. They could not move to the next place of God’s guidance and leading. Think of it! An entire nation was left stuck because one person arrogantly tried to elevate herself as leader when God had other plans. The adage is true: no one is an island.
God provides hope, though. Despite the delay, the people of God once again moved forward to the Promise Land. Miriam herself was restored before God and the people.
Hymn for Today: "All That Thrills My Soul" by Thoro Harris.

1. Who can cheer the heart like Jesus,

By His presence all divine?

True and tender, pure and precious,

Oh, how blest to call Him mine!

Refrain: All that thrills my soul is Jesus;

He is more than life to me; (to me;)

And the fairest of ten thousand,

In my blessed Lord I see.

2. Love of Christ so freely given,

Grace of God beyond degree,

Mercy higher than the heaven,

Deeper than the deepest sea.

Refrain: All that thrills my soul is Jesus;

He is more than life to me; (to me;)

And the fairest of ten thousand,

In my blessed Lord I see.

3. Every need His hand supplying,

Every good in Him I see;

On His strength divine relying,

He is All in All to me.

Refrain: All that thrills my soul is Jesus;

He is more than life to me; (to me;)

And the fairest of ten thousand,

In my blessed Lord I see.

4. 

By the crystal flowing river

With the ransomed I will sing,

And forever and forever

Praise and glorify the King.

Refrain: All that thrills my soul is Jesus;

He is more than life to me; (to me;)

And the fairest of ten thousand,

In my blessed Lord I see.

Thought for Today: 

For God is one;[

1 Timothy 2:5 Deuteronomy 6:4

] and there is but one Mediator between God and humanity, Yeshua the Messiah, himself human, who gave himself as a ransom on behalf of all, thus providing testimony to God’s purpose at just the right time.

 (1 Timothy 2:5-6)(Complete Jewish Bible).

Please pray: For faculty and students as they prepare for Christian ministry in Samoa.
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