Today’s Thought “For HIS Glory” G. Ward

Numbers 24:2

“And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.”

 

The Superiority of Holy God demands our implicit trust, but must always rely on what is written (Heb.1:1-2, 1 Jn.4:1-6). Holy God used a false prophet (Balaam) to demonstrate onto His people (Israel) an insistence for HIS presence in their lives. Israel’s constant rebellion of God‘s authority, along with their murmuring against His blessings has become a picture of our own insistence to more seek principles of pleasure (including pseudo sources) that contains a yield of temporary fulfillment and violate an eternity intended (cf. Ac.17:11).

Although our modernity celebrates worship center’s newest construction of buildings without crosses that may offend, there must remain an incessant, internal view, considerate (wholly/holy) of the price given for me (*Matt.16:24)…