The Meaning Of Life

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/numbers/15.htm

Unless you’re really special, there are times you will read the Bible andbe very confused. And I’m not special. And I’m not very smart either. Am I’m going to be very honest with my believes today, and after I pray, a lot, we might come back and visible this Chapter of Numbers.

Let me explain myself.

John 14:9 New King James Version – ⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Many people have been lead to believe that our God is an angry, vindictive God who punishes people for disobeying Him. And I totally understand where they’ve gotten the notion; there is an example of it right here in this Chapter. As you will read, there is a Sabbath breaker amongst them, who was caught picking up sticks on the Sabbath. And according to scripture, God commanded Moses to take the Sabbath-breaker outside of camp and stone him to death.

If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.

Does this sound like something Jesus would do? Hardly. While Jesus often put people on notice, mainly for their strict beliefs, like the Pharisees, not once did Jesus kill anyone for breaking “the law”, in fact, Jesus was very, very forgiving.

If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.

This is why the Pharisees tested Jesus with the prostitute. They brought him the prostitute, most likely Mary Magdelin, and expect to see if Jesus would stone her to death. If God was an angry vindictive God as this Chapter of Numbers indicates, then surely Jesus would have stoned her. But instead, He forgave her.

Get ready to throw rocks at me. Get ready to call me crazy. Get ready to tell me I’ve totally lost my mind. Then, pray for me.

Before I study the Bible, I always ask God to send His Spirit in to me to teach me the truth. I don’t want some version of what some man had interpreted, I’ve already established that. I want the truth, and the truth can only come from God.

Here are some of my thoughts for today, but even I am being critical of my own thoughts. Were these thoughts put into my head from the Holy Spirit, or were they put into my head by Satan to cast doubt on God.

Ready? Here are some of the things I’ve thought today. And they are going to go against everything a Christian has been taught.

What are the chances that Moses was starting to lose his mind?

I know, I know. But hear me out.

Moses didn’t have an easy life. He was born a Hebrew, but raised an Egyptian. He had the good life. His grandfather was the Pharoah of Egypt, his mother a princess. He lived the good life, slept in a soft bed, ate the best of the food. He didn’t have to toil and labor like his Hebrew brethren. Then suddenly, his life changed. He went from the easy life to a life of a fugitive. He wandered the desert until he came to the land of Midian where he settled. He went from the cush life to the hard life of a shepherd.

He didn’t get to marry and raise a family with high society Egyptian woman, he married a common Midianite. Then God tasked him with the exodus of the children of Israel, Hebrew’s at the time. And he worked his tail off, risking his life by going to his former brother, Pharoah Jr.

After the exodus, they walked miles, and miles, and miles afoot, the entire time the people he, with the help of God obviously, brought out of Egypt and was leading them to the promised land, across a sea with walls of water on both sides.

And even after they had escaped the Egyptians, people still complained. They quickly forgot the God that saved them, and made a golden calf and was worshipping, partying, having an orgy. He was so distraught, he threw the tablets that God had written the commandments on to the ground and broke them.

He was constantly caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to please God and having his faith tested by the Hebrews (with the help of Satan). They complained daily. There was no food. There was no water. They would have been better off staying slaves in Egypt. Even his own father-in-law Jethro could see that Moses was stressed, at his wits end, and suggested ways to lighten the load on Moses.

Moses was literally the Mayor of a city with a population of over a million, and there was unrest among the citizens. And yet, Moses was a mere man. He was a human, with a human mind. He wasn’t a super hero, yes he had God on his side, but he still experienced the stresses of being a man, an unappreciated man. Even his own brother and sister turned against him at one time.

I know for a fact, that I would have given up much sooner.

So, did Moses take things in his own hands? Was he so stressed, so angry with the people of Israel that he decided he would get the jump on God and took punitive measures in his own hands?

I know what the Book of Exodus says, but guess who wrote that book? Moses himself. Now I’m not suggesting Moses was a mad man who is responsible for this. It is just a thought that went through my head. But I know that my God is not vindictive. He’s not angry. He doesn’t kill people for disobeying Him. That is what Satan wants us to believe. Has the whole vindictive and angry God been an entire ruse, staged by Satan, planted in our brains, to make us turns against God? To make us afraid of God? To make us doubt, or dare should I say, hate God?

I’m not buying it.

I know there is a simple explanation. I know the truth is out there, the truth that our God, the God of Abraham, loves us. He want what’s best for us. God wants to write in the sand, then say, “He who is without sin, cast the first stone.” That’s my God.

Maybe I’m crazy, I easily could be. But not for one millisecond can I believe that God is a tyrant. And if He is, who would want to go to Heaven and live with Him forever? No. Satan is trying to deceive us. And Moses might not have been crazy, he may have very well succumbed to the temptations of Satan. It’s easy to do, especially when we are stressed to the end.

Father, I continue to pray for knowledge and understanding. I know that through the years, we have gotten less and less intelligent. We have introduced man-made chemicals that we eat and breathe every day. Our minds have been altered by alcohol, drugs, and quite possibly prescription medication. We know this live is a battle between good and evil, between You and Satan. We know that Satan is the King of Lies, and he is so good at it he was able to convince a third of the angels that God was bad, that he was an angry God. I pray for discernment. I pray that you put a hedge of protection between us and Satan. And I pray that some day, we are worthy of eternal life in Your Kingdom where You can give us the answers we seek. And finally I pray that I never lose faith. In Jesus sweet name, Amen.