Am I as zealous as God?
One of the greatest things about fasting is that God opens His word up and reveals things that you may have never seen before. I am currently following several reading plans and in one of them I am in the book of Numbers. Now mind you when I read Numbers my eyes usually immediately glaze over as we are continually told the counts of all the men in the various tribes. Every now and then we get a good battle or something but I have to admit this is not one of my favorite books in the Bible. However, every now and then God slips something in waiting to see if we will pay close attention and see what He is saying. I came across one of those occasions last week.
Numbers 25:1o-11 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.”
Can you imagine having God say that you have the same zeal that He has? A plague had been sweeping through Israel because of rebellion and the fact that the Midianite woman were leading the nation away from God. Over 24,000 people were killed before Phinehas finally had seen enough. Zimri out of complete disrespect brought another Midianite woman into the camp and Phinehas in a Holy rage stood up and drove a spear through Zimri and the woman killing them both.
Phinehas had the courage to stand for God and so the anger of God was diverted. Is there anyone today like Phinehas? How many people must die due to our culture of greed, sex, and ME? Is there anyone that has the zeal of Phinehas?
God, help me develop the kind of zeal for you that Phinehas has exhibited. Use me to bring about a change in our nation and in our culture! Lord, I want it written in Your book that I had a zeal that was equivalent to your own zeal for the people around me.
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