March 22

Today's Reading

Numbers. I was struck by Numbers 33:55: "But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides." Several thousand years later, we still live in the shadow of their failure to do what God said.

What do you think of the cities of refuge and the way that regulation was structured? Jesus taught a higher law: forgiveness.

Luke. The first thing I noticed today in this passage is the combination of humility and faith in the heart of the leper. The other is how aware Jesus was of the moving of God's Spirit. It's easy to think, "Why didn't Jesus just walk into all the places where there were sick people and start instantly healing them?" Obviously, God's healing power wasn't always evident. I want to keep growing in my awareness of how God is moving in given moments.

I am moved by today's Psalm: the all-powerful God is willing to forgive my many sins. Hallelujah!

Proverbs. "Godliness" is a gift from God, but He promises to reward it in us!

I await your thoughts! How is your reading coming along?