April 2, 2024
Read Numbers 22, Psalm 92, Mark 16
If you could talk with an animal which one would it be? What kinds of questions would you ask? Before there was Mr. Ed or the Donkey from Shrek there was another talking animal. Word of the Israelites victory in battle had made way to Moab and to the King Balak. Afraid of what Israel might do to him, Balak send messengers to a man named Balaam. “Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the country. For I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed” v. 6. God comes to Balaam and tells him not to go with theses men and not to curse Israel because they are a blessed nation. The King Balak tries a second tine to get Balaam to come curse Israel. This time God responds, “Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you” v. 20. Balaam went on ahead on his own and this angered the Lord who sent an angel to stop him. “When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road” v. 23. The donkey refused to go past the angel and crushed Balaam’s leg against the side of the wall. “Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?” v. 28. Many will say, Donkey’s can’t talk, but we must remember this is a miracle and when God acts in our world miracles are possible.
What else do you see in these chapters? What other miracles do you see God working?
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