Sunday, April 3, 2016

Numbers 27

"Then came the daughters of Zelophehad...Why should the name of our father be removed from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s brothers.” vv.1, 4

Read chapter 27
Feminist usually think that God is not good because of no rights for women in the Bible.  Well that's a skewed way of reading scripture and understanding of culture and God's provision. God did not abandon women or think less of them when He created Eve, but equal.  It's part of the curse of why we see this inequality today.  But even in the curse that we are waiting to be restored over thousands of years, God still provided protection for women in many ways and here we read an example of this in Numbers 27.  We see five sisters worried about what's going to happen to their family's inheritance now that their father died.  Land inheritance was a big deal then and was suppose to stay within the family according to their lot set by God, so these sisters don't want the land to be lost of their family's name perish so they ask for them to take possession.  Notice what the girls didn't do: They didn't sit back and do nothing, they didn't spend their lives as victims, and they didn't start gossip or criticism against leadership.  What they did do was take their case directly to Moses, not whining or crying or in anger most likely.  Moses then took their request to the Lord and God said yes!  God cares for petitions that might not even matter to the majority, God cares for the "nobodies" in society, God cares for women just as much as men.
If you're a woman, what is an issue that you dealt with in an opposite way as these sisters did? Is there something you have now that you can petition for in a godly manner?  If you're a man, how can you respect the requests of woman in a godly manner?

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