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Discipleship Focus: Provision
- Provision: God gives us what we truly need. God knows our needs better than we can know them. We learn to trust God to provide for us.
I was really tempted today to turn to the second half of this
chapter and speak to Joshua’s appointment as a D2 and D3 moment. After all, he is appointed into leadership,
but he gets an opportunity to lead under the overarching leadership of
Moses. But I think I’ve said enough on
that already here in this paragraph to make any point I would have made anyway.
For the rest of this post, I’d like to talk about Zelophehad’s daughters. They come to Moses knowing that without a
male heir the land promise that should have been given to their father would
instead go to their cousins. After all,
their father and all his brothers would have died in the wilderness as a part
of the “wicked generation.” What this
would mean is that these women and their offspring would have no means of
caring for themselves. They would become
immediate orphans before even stepping foot into the Promised Land.
God knows this. He has a
plan. He tells Moses that if a man doesn’t
produce any sons but does produce daughters, then the inheritance goes to the
daughters instead of the sons. In this
way, God provides for the needs of all of his people, not just the men or the
strong or the rich or the silver-tongued.
God does know what we need, and He is capable of managing a way of
making sure that we do receive what He has purposed for us out of His hand.
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