DAY 392 - Why God Was So Harsh?

Today's Reading: Numbers 15

Please read Numbers 15 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from this blog. You may click this link directly for the method:Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf. (You may begin with a song to praise the Lord and complete you devotion by singing another praise song.)

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Please click the links below to Numbers 15:

Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 15&version=CUV

NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 15&version=NIV

ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 15&version=ESV

Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers 15&version=MSG

Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp." So the assembly took him outside the amp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses. Numbers 15: 35-36

When I read this chapter, especially those lines that God wanted the man gathering wood on Sabbath to be stoned to death, I sighed and asked the Lord, "Why were you so harsh?" God said, "Because I want more people to live!"

Human beings always think that God is merciful to a point that we can do anything. No! God is merciful and righteous. Yesterday someone called me asking me to give her advice for a person she has been helping return back to the route of sin. I was then having lunch in San Francisco so I could not go there personally. Then the Lord asked me to call her again to ask that person to read my blog yesterday "The Bottom Line of God." I would like you to stop everything and pray for this person to repent of her sin and return to Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life. The power of prayers can surely change a sinner.

Sabbath is for us to rest spiritually and physically so that we can use our time wisely according to God's commandment to worship Him on Sunday. Also, we need to put down all our works and let our body, mind and soul to rest in God's restfulness. But there are people dying of depression, of working too much and of worshipping other things than God. We think God was so harsh but God just wanted more people to live!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me to be able to rest in you and follow you totally. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

My son, Ignatius, completed his three weeks mission in Ethiopia a few days ago.We are so joyful to welcome him home and know that he experienced God mightily in that three weeks. His one word of experience is "JOY"! Please click this link to read his wonderful sharing:http://21ethiopiandays.wordpress.com/

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Prayer items today:

For ACiC/AI

Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng (Michelle)

Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)

Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird (Janice),

Rev. Simon Neill (Jo), Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

Bishop's Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)

Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)

Pray for one AMiA bishop one day at a time

The Rt. Rev. Terrell Lyles Glenn, Jr. (Teresa)

Pray for one ACiC/AI church one day at a time

Jericho Road Church, Port Alberni

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. John Cox (Sheryl)

Assistant Pastor: Rev. Brad Frey (Julia)

Pastoral Assistant: Rev. Dave Dejong

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Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage Christians to have daily devotion - a wonderful and intimate time with Jesus.

There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:

1. A healthy spiritual diet - One chapter of the Bible daily. We really need at least one chapter of Bible daily so that we are well fed.

2. A good example of Spiritual Journaling - What I have committed for 1,189 days(the Bible has 1,189 chapters)to write this daily post is not for teaching purposes but this is my daily spiritual journal - I write down what I hear from Jesus and how I experience His intimate relationship with me each day. I have launched a wide-spectrum research on daily devotion and have found out that there are less than 10% of Christians that are having daily devotion. Out of that 10%, many having daily devotion are doing so because of guilt (they know that they are Christians and need to have daily devotion and feel guilty if they don’t do that), duty (they need to fulfill their duty as a Christian) or study(lots of Christians primarily use their daily devotion as a time to study the Bible). I do pray and hope that you will make up your mind to have a relational daily devotion so that you can have an intimate time with Jesus. I pray that you will write your own spiritual journal as well.

3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a discipler. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a small group of two to three people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online discipler to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!

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