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April 7, 2024

Read Numbers 27, Psalm 104-106

If you haven’t figured it out yet. I have been posting on social media and my blog my thoughts on the passages of Scripture that I read every day. This is a type of journaling I felt led to do at the beginning of the year when I started read through the Bible this year. Do you like to journal or record your thoughts down on paper or in some other format? I admit it’s not for everyone. There are benefits to journaling. You get to go back and review your thoughts over a period and see how you felt about a particular circumstance you were going through. Another benefit is to see how God worked through a time in your life or how He was actively involved in your life in the past.

This is the mentality of the author of Psalm 105 and 106. The psalmist goes back over the history of Israel and looks at the highlights of their journey. There are good and bad things mentioned. Times of disobedience and times when God’s providence prevailed. The psalm opens with these verses; “Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. ² Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts” vv. 1-2. It starts with Abraham and then with Jacob. Next, we see the journey to Egypt mentioned and some of the 10 plagues that God brought down on Egypt. “He sent darkness and made the land dark—   for had they not rebelled against his words? ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, causing their fish to die. ³⁰ Their land teemed with frogs, which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers” vv. 28-30. In Psalm 106 we find more of the negative journaling that reminded Israel of their disobedience and sin. “But they soon forgot what he had done and did not wait for his counsel. ¹⁴ In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test” vv. 13-14. The golden calf was mentioned and also when the earth opened up and swallowed some rebellious Israelites for opposing Moses. “The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it buried the company of Abiram” v. 17.

Good or bad, what are some things that you could journal about and return to at a later date to help you remember and appreciate the things that God has brought you through or that you have experienced?
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