Week 7 Numbers 16
The story of Korah Dathan & Abiram and their 250 associates is pretty sobering because the Lord is responsible for the execution of that entire group.
It makes me think about being a bible-reader and I ask myself one key question: do I get to make a judgment call about the Lord’s action? Put another way…do I get to decide whether the Lord acted correctly or incorrectly?
This is an intriguing (and potentially powerful) position to find myself in…deciding whether or not the Lord did wrong.
I figure each bible-reader gets to make that call and it’s a pretty basic one-of-two-options call to make: a) I do get to make my own personal judgment call about what the bible says the Lord does; b) I don’t get to make a judgment call about what the bible says the Lord does.
Personally I can definitely see the appeal of the first option – it puts me in the Driver’s Seat…I Decide for Myself! I tend to think this would make my decision-making in bible-reading a lot simpler.
But for now I’m sticking with the second option – I’ll read the bible and let it tell me what it’s telling me and not me tell it what it’s telling me. Unfortunately there’s a higher degree of difficulty with b) so that means my bible-reading won’t get any simpler.