December 18, 2022

Passage Read: Numbers 24-27
Meditation Verses: 25:1-2

Thought

These unbelieving women care nothing for their integrity or purity! They freely sleep with the Israelite men, with no apparent hesitation. Unbelievers have no sense of shame or self-respect. They are sent to invite the Israelite men to sacrifice to their gods and engage with them in sexual immorality, and they lead 24,000 men astray! The Israelites are incredibly faithless, going off to worship other gods for the sake of some food and a pretty girl. No thought of loyalty or obedience to the Lord. Good riddance!

Application

The unfaithfulness of the Israelites is a tragedy, but the immorality of the Midianite women is also disturbing. Unbelievers have no moral boundary! Anything they like goes! The believer has to be so committed to the Lord that he is able to refuse the free gift of an immoral woman. The unbelievers will not hesitate to sin against the Lord; there is nothing to restrain them. So I have to refuse even when offered.