5/30/2008

Lest they die...

This week began the reading of Bemidbar (In the wilderness), the Book of Numbers.

This book chronicles the experiences of Isra'el wandering through the desert.

The wilderness experience begins with an accounting. All who are numbered will be dead in the next forty years.

What began with blessings will now be marked also wth trials and tribulations. But, contrast this with their experiences of the previous four-hundred years.

Testings, walking with G-d, experiences of miracles, which began with ten plagues of deliverance in Egypt: would anyone trade these experiences for four-hundred years of bondage? Is slavery so attractive?

Apply these testimonies with your personal walk with G-d: trials, temptations,as well as blessings and deliverance; would you trade your relationship with G-d for the days before you were born again?

Your new birth experience was when your wilderness expereince began. Before that period you had no struggle with sin (we just readily accepted it).

Don't make the same mistake. These "Numbers" broke faith with G-d and were never allowed to see the Promised Land. Yet they experienced the trials of the wilderness.

Learn from your wilderness experience, lest you die.

Wishing you the peace of the Sabbath;

Meditate on His Word day and night,
Chaplain Gonzalez
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Rabbi, Adat Ben HaShem
Director, Cocoon Ministries.wotmf
Vice President, Word Outreach Teaching Ministries Fellowship, Inc.
Executive Chaplain, Pasadena Police Dept. Volunteer Chaplain Corps
Chaplain, Bayshore Medical Center, Volunteer Services

Meditate on His Word day and night,
Chaplain Gonzalez
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Rabbi, Adat Ben HaShem
Director, Cocoon Ministries.wotmf
Vice President, Word Outreach Teaching Ministries Fellowship, Inc.
Executive Chaplain, Pasadena Police Dept. Volunteer Chaplain Corps
Chaplain, Bayshore Medical Center, Volunteer Services

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