Day of Praise

Tu, 09/16/14, "Day of Praise"

"Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, 'Shall your countrymen go to war while you sit here?'" - Numbers 32:6

Oops! Did I just say that?

Ever said something and wished you hadn't? Duh!? Or ever said something with a tone and wished you had a "do-over"? Got me again.

Sometimes ya just have to feel bad for Moses. Poor guy. He's just trying to get God's people intact to God's land. And lo and behold, here come the tribes of Gad and Reuben, who don't want God's land west of the Jordan. They want land on the east; land already conquered.

So Moses jumps to conclusions and accuses them of cowardice and unwillingness to fight for God's land to the west.

Oops! Moses is wrong, guilty of false judgment.

Every year on Ash Wednesday and at other times, the church worships God and confesses "all false judgments" and other oopses.

I'm thankful for Jesus who gives us some major do-overs. You?

Praise God!


Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson