Mon.’s Devo - God’s Government

Read: Numbers 36:1; Deuteronomy 1:46; Luke 5:29-6:11; Psalm 66:1-20; Proverbs 11:24-26
The land was to stay in the tribes first laid out, so if a daughter owned property, she must marry someone from her own tribe to keep the property in that tribe. Land was not to be altered.
It should have taken the Israelites 11 days to travel from Mt. Sinai to the promised land but instead it took them 40 years because of their lack of faith.
God’s plan of government was that Moses was their leader and judge were appointed to help him settle the disputes of the people. Moses and the judges were to be God’s representatives down on earth. That is what we are suppose to be. Our existence on the earth should bring justice and right government. When the Body of Christ is functioning as it should, there should be peace in the land. We are suppose to be affecting and governing our society. We have a real enemy who uses intimidation and fear to keep us from doing that but we need to rise up in our Spirits, be fearless and bring righteousness to our generation.
In Luke, Jesus couldn’t please the Pharisees. They got mad that he chose to eat with sinners and tax collectors instead of them. They got mad that he didn’t fast regularly like John the Baptist did. Jesus explained that he ate with the sinners because they understood that they needed a savior. The Pharisees thought they were righteous because of all their pious works. Their self-righteousness kept them from being able to enter into God’s kingdom. Jesus explained this in the story of the new cloth and the new wineskins. They had to be born again and new to be able to hold the new thing God was doing on the earth. Instead, the teachers of the law refused to change.
Jesus healed the man with the deformed hand on the Sabbath and they were irate. They called it “work”. One of the reasons they got so mad about Jesus’ miracles was that these deformed people bribed the Pharisee’s to bring their offering to the Lord because the law states that no deformed person could offer an offering to the Lord. Once Jesus healed them, there was no need to bribe the Pharisees any more. The priesthood had become so corrupt and cold. In spite of the majority, there were a few priests who were genuine in their search for the Messiah and they would eventually come to believe.
Lord, help us to not be deceived by our preconceived ideas about You and how you work. We lay down our ways to follow your’s. Give us your thoughts and renew our hearts.