These two chapters for me are a good reminder that whether society likes it or not, we get our basic laws from the Bible. The cities of refugee sound a lot like a prison today. I mean they went there on their own, but they couldn’t leave until a trial was held, and they were protected from those that might seek to do harm against them.
The detail in which God lays things out for Moses never ceases to amaze me. He constantly is given exact numbers and such specifics, it seems that it would be hard to mess up. God even lays out the number of cities and the number of cities of refugees. An interesting thing I found this week while I was studying was the names of the cities of refugees. They are Bezer, Ramoth, and Golan on the east side of the Jordan and then Hebron, Shechem, and Kedesh on the west side of the river. You can find a little more about them in Joshua in chapters 20-21.
God made it pretty clear that he wanted the Levites at all the cities. I think this is important for us today to remember that we need to seek to find areas that do not have churches and put them there. We at BCCC are the product of such thought. God wanted there to be Levites all over the nation so that there might be teaching all throughout the land. It is a good reminder for us today that God had some pretty good ideas about church planting before we even thought of the term.
The last thing that I really took away from today’s reading was in Chapter 36. God gave pretty clear instructions about the tribes and how they were not to mix. I think this is a good reminder that He had very clear ideas on the roles of each tribe and that one of these tribes was to be the ancestors of the Messiah, and by not allowing them to mix it was very clear which tribe He came from. The leaders had no idea of this at the time. Which for us should serve as a great reminder that God sees the big picture and we only see a small part. We have to trust Him for the long run. My prayer for us today is that we trust in God’s big picture and we are content with what we can see in the short term.
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