Today's readings are Numbers 16.23-40 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Num.+16.23-40 ) and Luke 19.29-48 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Num.+16.23-40 ).
As we see the dreadful end to which Korah and company come, let us not forget our tendencies. The Lord has revealed to us in His word what his character is, what his demands are. He has given us a simple message about life and death - live a life of perfect righteousness, faith, and obedience and we will live. Live otherwise and we will die. He has given us hope in appointing his Son to live that life of righteousness and to die on our behalf. This is all quite simple. He has given us the Scripture which is effective in creating faith in the hearers and which accomplishes its purpose. He has given us, in short, the gospel of Christ, which is powerful. Yet we want to go our own direction. We want to set up other ways of accomplishing salvation. We want to devise a new plan which will allow us progressive people to go beyond what our ancestors have done. We always want something new and different.
God's message to us in today's readings is that there is nothing that is really new, there is nothing particularly different about our plans, and that what we really need is God's same old plan. May we rest in God's promises, which are as good today as they ever have been. Christ has lived a perfect life and died on our behalf. We are granted new life in Christ by grace through faith, which comes from the Holy Spirit as the word of God is proclaimed to us. Rejoice! There's no need for anything new.
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