Day 74..."Numbers Begins with NUMBERS...Jesus Teaches"

How fitting that the Book of Numbers begins with you guessed it...NUMBERS. Numbers of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses is careful to point out this does not include the Levites. Notice how each tribe would be comparable to small cities or college football stadium capacities. In the Psalm, Leviathan appears in the writing. Leviathan is a large sea creature and a metaphor for evil in the Book of Job. Jesus warns to beware of the teaching or "the leaven" of the Pharisees. Peter proclaims Jesus as "The Christ." Jesus teaches the price of this declaration. Those who follow must be willing to bear the cross. We have been focusing on the theme..."it is not about me" and we see this strongly in the teaching..."For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?" Ironically, when we relinquish control of our life to Jesus we discover a new freedom for life as God intended!