The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Numbers 27:5-7,
"So Moses brought their case before the Lord, and the Lord said to him, 'What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and give their father's inheritance to them.'"
In the previous chapter a census was taken as a precursor to distributing the land promised to Israel once they took it from the then current inhabitants. In verse 53 of that chapter we read, "The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names." Those names were the names of the men in the various clans.
A case came before Moses that involved the five daughters of a man named Zelophehad who had passed away while having no sons. Since there were no sons, the sisters made their plea that since their deceased father had not participated in rebellious activity, his family should not be excluded from a rightful share of the land to be distributed.
"So Moses brought their case before the Lord, and the Lord said to him, 'What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and give their father's inheritance to them.'"
In the previous chapter a census was taken as a precursor to distributing the land promised to Israel once they took it from the then current inhabitants. In verse 53 of that chapter we read, "The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names." Those names were the names of the men in the various clans.
A case came before Moses that involved the five daughters of a man named Zelophehad who had passed away while having no sons. Since there were no sons, the sisters made their plea that since their deceased father had not participated in rebellious activity, his family should not be excluded from a rightful share of the land to be distributed.
Not having that specific circumstance covered in the law, Moses took their case to the Lord.
Not every conceivable situation in life was accounted for in the law as given by the Lord to Moses. Obviously, had the Lord done so, the books of the law would certainly pile up bigger than Mt. Sinai itself! It would have made the law a useless stack of minutiae. A vast sea of detail that would have made itself unnavigable and useless for the purpose the Lord had given it to Moses for in the first place.
Things we may encounter today might present a similar circumstance. Not every conceivable situation in life is covered specifically in the Scriptures. There may be some principles that can be gleaned in a general sense for a given situation, but sometimes we need to follow Moses' example and take those things before the Lord.
Many things in life present themselves as best being brought to the Lord in prayer. They force us to stop in our tracks and rely on his immediate presence as we look for direction from him. I suspect that is at least one reason why the Lord has not provided all the answers to everything we may encounter in the Scriptures.
In addition to the Scriptures, we need to rely on the Lord in prayer.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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