Redemption is a Process
📖Daily Reading
Numbers 34
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📝 Reflection
Numbers 11: 14 (Moses) “I can’t carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy! If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this misery!”
The epic story of the Israelites getting a redeemer (God through Moses ) and a redemption plan that will lead to a promised land includes a period of being in the wilderness. While we need to keep our eyes on the prize it is helpful to learn from the wilderness period of the Israelites and how we can apply this to our lives today. I am sure that most of us can identify with the feeling of being lost, afraid, and uncertain in a ‘wilderness’ period in our lives at some point or other. Maybe you have slipped into hopelessness and that there is no way out. I hope you can be encouraged today and know that redemption is possible for you.
I can so relate to the Israelites feeling so overwhelmed by their very real circumstances that they lose sight of the promise and begin to not only grumble and complain, but they ask to be returned to Egypt and to being their life of slavery and being abused. Anyone who has done the hard work of transforming an area of your life or breaking a really ingrained habit and or addiction can relate, am I right? You can’t get to the other side without going through a period of being in the wilderness. There are moments, days where you just lose hope, it is too hard, and you just want to hit the eject button….
In the passage above we also see that even Moses has moments of hopelessness, overwhelm and despair. The wilderness can be a dark, uncertain and scary place that often has even the leader(s) asking to go back to the land of familiar even if it is bad!
For some of us the wilderness might be that we do return to an aspect of our former lives for a bit. In the wilderness story in Numbers 11: 31-35 God provides meat in response to the grumbling and they gorge themselves to the point of sickness. Then they are thankful to go back to God’s provision and the process of being in the wilderness. By this backwards step we can be reminded of the truth of how bad it was before.
The human mind can tend to romanticize the good and minimize the bad as we get distance and time from a state of being or an event. This is actually a good thing in the grand scheme of things and from a survival and evolutionary point of view. It allows women to go through painful events like childbirth willingly. It helps us survive trauma, horrific events and pain and go on living and deal with day to day requirements of surviving. It can also as this story demonstrates keep us stuck in a cycle and feeling like we are chasing our proverbial tails in the wilderness. There are things you need to remember the horror of and not fall into the trap of romanticizing or minimizing.
Stick with me for this next part. New brain and habit science can help us understand and use this story as a great metaphor. Moses is like our higher brain- he has been given the vision and the assignment of taking his people (our lower brain) to the promise land. He also is responsible for keeping these short sighted people (old self lower brain) who only know the life of slavery and abuse focused and progressing to the promised land. Not an easy task and one that is a process that involves success, failure and learning - but overall a trajectory of progress. It takes a while for the lower brain to catch up to what the the higher mind knows is possible. It can be tiring and defeating even for the higher brain(Moses). But with patience, time and perseverance the lower brain (the people) begins to see that life can be lived a new way.
The promised land is on the horizon, the impossible starts to look possible and within reach. Stick with it, keep going and keep the vision of your higher self in front of you. If you fall get up and keep going
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Does this pairing of science and allegorical example through scripture help you see that there is process that must be gone through to get to the promise land? Does this or can this give you hope in the moments of overwhelm when you want to give up and go back to your old ways? Also, you are not alone or broken, you are human and you have learned patterns of behavior and being that are hard to change, but redemption is possible!
📖Tomorrows Reading
Numbers 35-36
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