Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Let me say thank you to all the mothers out there in this life who do their best and work hard for their families. You are precious and a child of God and God looks on you as His princess. {All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold. All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold. Psalm 45:13}
It reads in Matthew 6:25-34, ~ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Now my nephew brought me a black bird he found that fell on the ground Friday. I took a plant container and put cedar bedding in the container and rest it on its side. Rest the little bird on the cedar. I took a cover and put water. I took bird food and placed it on a saucer. The bird was sleeping by the time I was finished. I looked closely to make sure he was still breathing. I checked on him before I went to bed, and he was still sleeping. I got up Saturday morning and the bird had found his way out of the garage. We have openings on the on the roof on the side walls. This is a mother’s love. Always caring and concerned about the needs of others before herself. Amen.
I want to talk a little about Miriam and the encouragement that can be grasped in helping those in need, also how disobedience brings obedience and forgiveness working for God’s glory.
The sister of Moses and Aaron, “Miriam the prophetess” (It reads in Exodus 15:20,~ Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. ) was assigned to watch Moses when he lay as a baby in the bulrushes. Moses’ is older and married. Miriam and Aaron Opposes Moses. Moses was a humble man. The Lord spoke directly to Miriam and Aaron when they took pride in their prophetic gifts, and He cursed Miriam with leprosy (It reads in Numbers 12:1-16,~ Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this. (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth. Humble means: having or showing a modest or low estimate of one’s own importance: ) At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them. When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous, it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!” The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back. After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.} “Like what my mom told us growing up. You judge someone wrongfully, then you get it back double by someone who isn’t associated with the one you judged. She’d say think before you judge and put yourself in that person’s shoes first. Not everything is what it seems.” Miriam is later named as one of the three who helped lead the children of Israel out of Egypt: God speaks: “I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam” {It reads in Micah 6:4, ~ I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery . I sent Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam.} Learning that team work between the three makes a big difference and they was never alone on this journey. Reading the relationship between Moses and Aaron that God knows our hearts and our capabilities, and He places us in positions suited for us. Aaron had to humble himself to accept God’s choice, and Moses had to accept the help. By working together, the brothers and Miriam accomplished much more than either of them could do alone. By Aaron serving faithfully as the spokesman for Moses, Aaron compensated for his brother’s weakness and feelings of inadequacy. Aaron, in turn, was given “dignity and honor” It reads in Exodus 28:2. Because of their cooperation with each other and with the Lord, the nation of Israel survived a difficult and challenging time.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You that sometimes You have to step in our sin to get us to snap out of it and to walk in righteousness. I thank You and praise You that You made Miriam a example of how we should walk so we don’t make You upset enough to show us the hard way out of our selfishness. I thank You and praise You that You can make a bad situation through us work out for Your glory and our good. I thank You and praise You for Your word of truth and the amazing way they all point to Jesus Christ, Who is the one and only way to You, and that by faith in the redemptive power of Jesus shed blood on the Cross, we may receive forgiveness of sin and life everlasting. I thank You and praise You that Jesus Christ ever lives to make intercession for His people and I believe that I too may learn to pray without ceasing, to give thanks in all things, and to love You with all my heart and soul and mind and strength and You fulfill our needs in our weakness. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Your Precious Name Jesus Amen.
{Power Verse}
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
Proverbs 31:8
"Only Life Changes" 