The Trumpet of the Lord . . .

Yesterday I didn't get to my Bible reading until late last night. Between most of the night filled with a sick child, sleeping when they did into the late morning and errands that HAD to be run it was a long time. I was a little tired but very expectant to see what God had for me! In Numbers 9:10 God is giving some of the law and he says this, "And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies." Do you suppose they remembered this verse when they FINALLY got to Jericho and God tells them to walk around the walls for seven days and on the seventh day walk around seven times and on the last time blow trumpets and shout! Or do you suppose that Gideon tucked this little nugget away when he went to defeat the enemy. Here he was told, "Don't bring the strong, don't bring everyone and when you get there you get a lamp and a trumpet. You're going to break the lamp and blow the trumpet and that's it, you don't even need your sword." HUH?! I'll tell you this, if he did know this verse I'm sure it bolstered him to obey God because God gives a very clear promise here!

Now I know what your'e thinking, I don't go to war, not physically and if I do they don't use trumpets any more, it's called cell phones, walkie talkies, computers, etc. I know that! The principle here is, "Knowing God's promises makes us better equipped to obey His words!" God may have given you a strange task, i.e. "Go to a strange land, to a strange people, change your way of thinking, change your traditions, change who you are and spend your life telling people about God." A promise that would help you is "Lo, I am with you alway even unto the end of the world", part of Matthew 28:19, 20. What about a strange task such as, "Even in this corrupt world, where Disney channel sets the standard of how children and teens should behave. Where television continually makes not just the father to be an idiot but the mother as well and that children are now becoming the saviors of their families, even amidst all this wickedness God wants you to raise your children, to love Him and to serve Him." Several verses come to mind, Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." or Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." or Proverbs 28:1 "The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion."

Whatever God has given you to be or to do, don't despair, there is a promise in the Bible for you to claim, actually there are probably more than one! Go read your Bible and find them!