Proverbs 11:4
Numbers 14:4 – Interesting that this crowd is mutinying, but they realize they need a leader. Thankfully Aaron is on the right side (v.5), even when they were almost stoned (v.10)!
Numbers 14:18 – Is Moses more just than God? Or is God seeing if Moses has remembered the character of God? In this verse Moses is recalling Exodus 34:6-7 – and claiming the promises that God has made.
Numbers 14:27 – God says they murmured against Him, but v.2 says they murmured against Moses & Aaron. When we grumble against the leaders God has allowed to be in stead over us, are we grumbling against God?
We’re in the second half of the first month of this journey!
Genesis 32:14-19 – we’re in the middle of a dramatic scene. Jacob had lied to his father and cheated his brother Esau out of the blessing of his father. Earlier this month we saw the liar Jacob being outlied by his uncle Laban. He’s learned his lesson. Now he’s seeking reconciliation. This is an expensive reconciliation. But God is blessing his self-sacrificial reconciliation with a new name.
Genesis 32:26 – The Pulpit Commentary says Jacob “sought to obtain from him the blessing which he had previously stolen from his aged father by craft.”