Daily Devotional from Numbers 6--Verse 27So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.You’ve probably heard the blessing in verses 24-26. But did you notice that God is the one who gave Aaron and his sons the words to speak over the Israelites? Even more amazing is that we still hear this blessing spoken over us today—the very words of God given as a blessing to His p...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 5—Verse 29This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife.This chapter sets forth a specific way of determining guilt or innocence in a wife accused of adultery in ancient Israel. It shows both the severity of the act ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 4--Verse 20But they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.To think the priests couldn’t even look past the veil, no looking, no touching or else they would die. We see later in 2 Samuel 6:6-11 Uzzah is struck dead when he tried to save the ark from falling when the oxen stumbled. But there is good news! It’s not like this anymore....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 3—Verses 11-12And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine.”God chose the tribe of the Levites, specifically to minister to Him and to care for and guard all of the components of the tabernacle. They were to prot...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 2--Verse 3Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab…The more I read and learn about the Bible, the more I love the story of the Tabernacle. One of my favorite things about it is that the entrance must face the east; because back...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 1—Verse 2Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.Reading a list of names can be boring, but the fact that they are included in the Scriptures means they are important and there for a reason (2 Tim 3:16). Genealogy was important to the Jews to determine if on...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 27—Verse 21But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.Have you ever hit the reset button on something that wasn’t functioning properly? When the Israelites reached the Promised Land, God distributed land to the tribes. Over the years, as people neede...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 26—Verses 3-4If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.Verses 1-13 list the blessings of obeying God, while 14-39 pronounce curses for disobedience. We’re in the middle of the five books of the LAW and t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 25—Verse 22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.Isn’t it amazing how the LORD provided for the Israelites? In this chapter, we see again the concept of laying down the work and trusting God ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 24--Verse 12And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.When the man blasphemed the Lord, the Israelites weren’t sure of how to punish him. And so, they waited upon the Lord for wisdom.God gives wisdom to those who ask for it. When we face difficult decisions, do we rely on our own wisdom, or do we slow down and wait for God’s? It’...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 23--Verse 2These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations.What would it look like if we stopped and celebrated more? As Americans, we just keep the pedal to the metal and don’t stop nearly enough.But I like how God instructed Israel to do it. If you were to add up all the holidays listed in chapter 23, you would have 18 days....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 22--Verse 32b-33I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.Throughout Leviticus 21-22 we see requirements physically and relationally for the priests, and we see physical requirements for the sacrifices. Throughout this reading we also see the word “blemish” repeated over and over. It was required that th...  Read More