Year 4, Day 151: Numbers 36

Theological Commentary: Click Here 

Discipleship Focus: Father

• Father: This is the pinnacle of the Covenant Triangle.  God is the Father.  He is the creator.  He is love.  Our relationship with the Father is rooted in His love for us.  We get our identity through Him.  When the Father is in our life, obedience becomes clear.

If you read my theological commentary that I wrote three years ago, you already know that I really struggle with the underlying principle of this chapter.  What we see here is a people coming before Moses really concerned about their property and their inheritance.  I wanted to talk about identity here and speak to the fact that the people aren’t getting their identity from God, where it should be coming from.  It would be so easy to rip the people apart – and rip ourselves apart – because they are focused on the wrong things.

But I’ve already done enough of that.  Before we can talk identity, we have to absolutely talk about what is in our “UP” position.  I believe that God should be in the UP position in our lives.  God should be our worship.  God should be our center.  God should be our rock.  When it comes to identity, we should look to the Father.

These Hebrew people have an opportunity to focus on a great God who is delivering them into the Promised Land.  They have a great opportunity to focus on an awesome God who has already put His power on display numerous times since the Hebrew people left Egypt.  That’s where their focus should be.  That’s the direction that they should be orienting themselves.

But they aren’t.  Rather than being oriented to the Father, they are oriented to their inheritance.  They’re beginning already to orient themselves to stuff.  They are already concerned with making sure they get a fair cut of the deal.  They would be better off remembering to orient themselves to the Father.

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