Day 33

Dec 3: Numbers 1-6
In the beginning of the book of Numbers, God asks Moses to take a census of the whole Israelite community by clan and family, listing every man by name, one by one who is over 20 years old and can serve in the army. The first few chapters go over the different clans, lists out the leaders of the clans, and how many people occupy that clan. The total number of Israelite men over 20 came out to 603,550. With women and children too, this number had to have been well over 1.5 million I would imagine. The only thing I could think about while reading this was how God was fulfilling his promise to Abraham, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars-if indeed you can count them...so shall your offspring be." It's been many generations, but God comes through on his promises to make a nation out of Abraham and also to save that nation from Egypt.
I know we all go through hard times in our lives and may feel like there's just nothing going right. We may feel like we haven't been blessed, or have nothing to show for ourselves at times. I think that in those times, we need to try to be content as hard as that may be, because we have a greater promise that God has given us. That through the blood of his only son Jesus, we have salvation and eternal life.