There’s a difference between knowing someone’s name and truly knowing who they are. God revealed Himself to the patriarchs as El Shaddai, but Moses would experience something deeper – the covenant faithfulness of Hashem
God sees potential in you that you can’t see in yourself. Just like a gardener chooses plants for their future blossoms, not their hidden roots, God is developing something beautiful beneath the surface of your struggles.
Are you seeing yourself as a grasshopper when God sees you as a conqueror? The story of the 12 spies reveals how our perspective shapes our future.
The relationship between sacrifice, atonement, and doing God’s will unfolds throughout Scripture in parallel stories of creation, failure, and redemption.
By embracing humility, seeking reconciliation, and renewing our minds according to God’s word, we can take steps in the right direction and walk in the fullness of God’s calling, even in the face of our own struggles and failures.
Believers are to be living stones, unified in God’s name, Word, and glory, embodying humility, selfless love, and the transformative power of God’s Spirit.
The tribes of Reuben and Gad assured Moses that they were not acting according to the ways of their fathers by settling East of the Jordan. In doing this, they were, in essence, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what God had in store for them.