Title: How Can This Be?/Topic: Doubt

Today’s Reading: Numbers 10; Numbers 11; Psalm 27; Mark 1

Scripture: Numbers 11:21-23
21 But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!' 22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?"
23 The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you."

Observation: God makes a promise to provide meat for the entire camp of Israel for a whole month --- and Moses doubts it! Moses, who saw God do inexplicable wonders in Egypt, can't figure out how God could possibly keep this promise. He actually questions God about his ability to perform such a feat. Amazing that after seeing God change his staff of wood into a snake, seeing the Nile turn to blood, and seeing the Red Sea parted that he would doubt that God could do anything.

Application: This scripture is very encouraging and comforting to me because I am just like Moses when it comes to doubt. I have seen the Lord do marvelous things and yet I sometimes doubt he will continue to do them. I especially think he won't continue to do them if I doubt. It's so nice to know that God can and will work in spite of my doubt when my heart is set on him.

Prayer: Lord, I know you want us to be single-minded and full f faith. That is what I want to be too. But thank you for forgiving my doubts when they come and doing what needs to be done in spits of them. Lord, I believe; remedy my unbelief.
This I pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.