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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Numbers 33:36-56
The desert wind has long ago obliterated all traces of the long pilgrimage. But each step has been recorded in God’s book: "And they departed and pitched . . . and they removed and camped . . . A few verses quickly read summarise forty years and an equal number of stopping places, of which many are only mentioned here. But although we know nothing more about them, it has pleased God to record each name in His holy Book, as if to draw our attention to this searching verse, "Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?" (Job 31:4).
For us also, the passage of time has effaced the memory of the greater part of our past. Could we even say what we did yesterday without forgetting anything? But the Lord has kept a record of it. Nothing of it has escaped Him. It is as if a film has been made of our whole life, with no cuts. At the "judgment seat of Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:10), this film will be run through before our eyes in the full light of God. What a challenging thought! If it happened now, not one of us could stand it. But with Jesus beside us we shall know neither shame nor fear of judgment. There will only be room for the inexpressible sense of the immensity of His grace, producing eternal worship.
