Sat.’s Devo - The Master’s Peace

Read: Numbers 14:1-15:16; Mark 14:53-72; Psalm 53:1-6; Proverbs 11:4
The night that the spies came back with their evil report, all the people cried and grumbled against Moses for bringing them out of bondage. Talk about drama queens! These people are so easy to point fingers at, but so easy to mimic. As mad as I get reading about them and their unbelief, I can so relate to them in my own life. If they could have read their story in a book, I wonder if they would have reacted differently. I wonder if I would react differently if I would reread my own story of all the things God has done for me.
God has promised us that ALL THINGS work for the good for those who love him and are called into his purposes. That is a promise to every person who has called on the Lord and made Jesus their king.
God is a god of love who is slow to anger and forgives sin and rebellion but he does not leave the guilty unpunished. God forgave them, but their rebellion cost them entrance into the promised land. They would all die in the wilderness and their children would receive the promise. Their sentence was to wander in the wilderness one year for every day the spies spent in the promised land and the spies all died of a plague except Caleb and Joshua. They had a different heart.
Some of the people took matters into their own hand and went into Canaan anyway, without God’s presence and his favor. They were slaughtered.
But…God was already planning for the future. He knew that they would eventually enter and he gave them laws for offerings they would present once they got there.
In Mark, Jesus was taken to the Sanhedrin to stand trial and be sentenced by the religious institution of the day. It was the first time that Jesus openly confessed that he was the Messiah. He not only said he was the Messiah, but he predicted his second coming also.
Peter denied Jesus three times just at Jesus said he would. Everything was falling into place even though it didn’t appear to be.
That is so true of our lives. Falling into place does not look so orderly when it is happening, but the end speaks the better truth. That is why God told us not to be weary in well doing because if we do not faint, we will reap the reward.
Lord, help us to see with your eyes and put our faith in you even when things look like they are falling apart. You are the master craftsman who puts broken pieces together to form masterpieces.