Author: Dave Dishman (Page 369 of 459)

I love the language Moses prays in Psalm 90.

From everlasting to everlasting you are God (v 2).

A thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past (v 4).

Let the favor of our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands (v17).

From everlasting to everlasting – I live somewhere in the middle.

These words lift my mindset from the immediate and short-lived to the eternal, an eternity I’m actually living right now.

(And, this flash of perspective displays my need for daily time in the Scriptures.)

Week six of reading the Bible cover to cover

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.

Exodus 24:9-11

40 days later – some of these men bowed before a golden calf.

They beheld God.

40 days later – some of these men led their people into a form of worship expressly forbidden by God on Mount Sinai.

They beheld God.

40+ centuries later – who’s to say I wouldn’t do the same?

They beheld God.

Lord, grant me the faith of Moses and Joshua, not that of Aaron and his fellow calf-worshiping elders.

Week six of reading the Bible cover to cover

The children of Israel named the strange flakes manna, which sounds like the Hebrew for “what is it?”

The manna settled like the dew six days a week, always fresh and on-time.

Light in color, manna tasted like wafers made with honey.

As I read, I so want a taste. Just a morsel. Perhaps the smorgasbord in heaven will feature a manna station.

Taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8).

Literally in this case.

Exodus 16 in week six of reading the Bible cover to cover