The Lord bless you and keep you!
The Lord let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you!
The Lord look upon you kindly and give you peace!
So shall they invoke my name upon the Israelites, and I will bless them."
Thoughts: I was feeling a bit down at the time I read this and it really picked me up. God, the Lord, is telling Moses. not just some random person that this is how you are to bless the Israelites. This is what He wanted the Iraelites to know. We are God's children and he wants to bless us, he wants to keep us, He does not want to put us up for adoption no matter how bad we behave. This is comforting.
Due to our selfishness and sinfulness, we often hide in the dark not wanting God to find us. I don't want God to see how bad I am and so I hide in the dark and convince myself that I like it there. It is winter right now and dark for a large part of the day. whenever the sun does finally peak out how wonderful and rejuvenated I feel. God wants to be the sunshine in our lives and warm us more than the sun ever can. Sometimes babies are born with jaundice. I think it is like a lack of vitamin A or something like that. Anyway, the important thing is that to cure that they put the baby in sunlight. When we are feeling down or beat up or distant from the Lord, we need to move into the sunlight of His love and grace. Then we will be renewed.
So, we walk in the light of Christ, we say goodbye to those these that keep us in darkness and the result is that we will have peace. The message from God to Moses to Aaron and his sons is still relevant today. Let us share and be the blessing that we are called to in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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