“If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River.”
Numbers 32:5
The tribes of Reuben and Gad were content in what they saw. over the Jordan into Canaan. Now, it seemed, that these two tribes were content to stop short of crossing the Jordan and they seemed to be satisfied with settling for less.
How often am I more content in what I see than thrilled with anticipation of what I can’t see?
Our rather thans are never greater than God’s what I have planned.
What an insult this must be to God when we offer Him rather than, instead, and I was thinking.
How often do I offer an alternative plan to God?
Rather than, instead, and I was thinking plans are based on:
Suggesting alternatives to God implies we:
Those who trust their own insight are foolish, but anyone who walks in wisdom is safe.
Proverbs 28:26
“That any Israelite tribe should consider settling outside the land promised to Abraham showed a disturbing indifference to the divine word, the word on which Israel’s existence entirely depended.” – Gordon J. Wenham
What frightening thought!“And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.“
Numbers 33:56
Never offer God a rather than, an instead, or I was thinking.
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