NUMBERS 32 1-3: SELF DETERMINATION
is very essential for the expression of self and fulfilment in life. The
children of Reuben and Gad saw what they wanted – a good pasture for their
large livestock – in the land of Jazer and Gilead, and they went to Moses to
seek his permission to allow them settle there, as there was no point for them
to go further with the congregation across the Jordan when they had already
seen all they needed for sustenance before the Jordan.
9: DISCOURAGEMENT, either external
or internal, can prevent one from making the necessary move to take possession
of what God has given one.
11: NOT FOLLOWING GOD WHOLLY, that
is with unflinching dedication, can also prevent one from ATTAINING THE
PROMISE. It halted a whole generation of Israel from attaining what had been
given to them by Divine Promise many years before they were even born.
15: TURNING AWAY FROM God can lead
to Him abandoning one in the wilderness (the vicissitudes of life), and this
might lead to the destruction of the person.
6-33: There is a PRICE TO PAY FOR
GETTING WHAT YOU WANT. In the case of the children of Reuben, Gad and half the
tribe of Manasseh, it was patiently enduring the castigation of Moses and
resolving to go with the army of Israel across the Jordan to fight the battle
that would make them the sole occupants of Canaan. 39: For there to a
POSSESSION, there must first e a DISPOSSESSION. The children of Machir had to
fight and dispossess the Amorites before they could possess their land.
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