Day 66

Numbers 25-26.  “Counted with Whom”

Perhaps it’s a baseball cap, sweatshirt, bumper sticker, or something else we utilize that gives evidence to the fact that we are identified with the winning team.  We love to be part of the winning team.
If you can only be counted with one group which one will it be?  Therein lies the conundrum.  Human nature, being what it is, generally would prefer to be counted with each popular group.  Yet that’s not possible.
Do you want to be numbered with God’s elect?  It will mean persecution (2 Tim. 3:12).  It will mean being disliked by the world (Matt. 10:22; John 15:18; 17:14).
Yet, because of the hope eternity holds for us, as well as the outstanding benefits even now, such as peace and contentment, we would still choose to be counted with God’s elect.
Conversely, here is an amazing thought: because of Christ’s love for us “He was counted among those who were rebels” (Luke 22:37).  Unjustly (yet prophetically—Isa. 53:12), in order for us to be counted with Him, Christ was identified as the One crucified between the transgressors taking on our sins.

General Questions for each day:
Summarize the day’s Bible passage in your own words.
What thoughts, actions, attitudes or beliefs are addressed in the passage?
How is the Holy Spirit leading you to apply this passage to your life today?