The Second Chance

February 28, 2008

Numbers 9:4-11 BBE
(4) And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel to keep the Passover.
(5) So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
(6) And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
(7) And these men said to him, We have been made unclean by the dead body of a man; why may we not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time among the children of Israel?
(8) And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.
(9) And the Lord said to Moses,
(10) Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:
(11) In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

God is clearly a God of second chances. When He told the people they were to celebrate the Passover on the 14th day of the first month He meant it. But through no fault of their own, some people became unclean.

God could have said, 'tough luck, you are not my people anymore.' He did not. He set up a second chance.

How many people have hurt you in your life. They may have done it on purpose, but I have a belief in the good of all people and that there wasprobably a misunderstanding. If God can give His people a second chance, can we not give the same to someone who has been at fault to us?

Have you needed that second chance and wish you could have it.




Sorry but I have lost a reading day somewhere along the line. Rather than go back and find it we will move forward with three devotions for the 28th, 1 for yesterday, one for today, and one for the leap year day.

Read through the Bible in one year in Historical order
Today
Numbers 8:1-10:36
Tomorrow
Take a rest, it is leap year day. We will do another devotional from today's reading

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