Count on HIm

Read Numbers 1-3
 
Numbers 1:1-5 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: 2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. 3 You and Aaron are to number by their divisions all the men in Israel twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army. 4 One man from each tribe, each the head of his family, is to help you. 5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you.”
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Num 1:53 The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the Testimony.
 
AGAIN, we may be tempted to move past Numbers. How does counting relate to your salvation?
    Let’s first use the numbers to note God’s precision. He says, “Count.” Then he commands who is to do this and how it is to be done. He also appoints the Levites to care for the tabernacle of the Testimony. You could say, “He’s counting on them to care for his house.” God’s way is holy; he is an orderly, precise Creator. How else could he be? The universe operates with mathematical exactness. When he speaks, count his words as vital to your life.
    But our nature is reject God’s accurate truth, even as we proclaim him, “Lord and Savior.” For example, we don’t want to believe his precise commands to love the unlovable – even our enemies – to give to the poor, to give to God, to be prayerful, to be humble to our spouse, to worship him only, to live in faith…and so many more good commands to demonstrate his true love. Why do we prefer the imprecision?
    Perhaps as we are tempted to discount God’s Way, let’s stop to do some counting in our hearts. Think of this: Romans 6:11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. This is incredible counting!
    Then see 2 Thessalonians 1:11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. God’s precise counting includes his response to your faith. And note how God counts suffering: Acts 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. What do you think? Can you be more eager to count on God, who counts you his own in Christ Jesus?
 
Be Grateful for God’s eternal counting: Romans 4:8 “Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”