This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.

This is the part that I was most excited about as I’m going through the Bible chronologically. Today (and yesterday but I never posted), I’m starting to go back and forth between passages. A fun fact that I never knew was that Psalms had a chapter written by Moses. I don’t know how many times I’ve read through Psalms but never paid close enough attention to realize that Moses wrote Psalm 90.

The chapters that I read today and yesterday were a breath of fresh air. There was a break from the constant rules for sacrifices and numbers of each tribe, etc. And it carried on the story. Talking about the 12 spies scouting out the land and the 10 coming back and giving a false report to scare the people, and Caleb and Joshua being the only two who were trying to tell everyone that it was good.

At one point even in these chapters, the people get so upset at Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and company that they threaten to stone them. In fact, if it weren’t for the Lord intervening, they very well may have been. How crazy is that? These people who have been following Moses around and being lead by God, when they don’t get what they want and when things don’t turn out how they want, they turn and try to stone the man God has used to bring them out of captivity.

Again, we think this is crazy, but we know the whole story. We know that the promised land exists. We know that God can conquer any enemy he wanted to. Perhaps these people should have known that, but they didn’t have the ability to see the whole thing from start to finish as we can see now.

Very much looking forward to getting further into the old testament.