Rest

"Would that all the Lord's people were prophets," Numbers 11:29.

In the vast panorama of the Bible two fellows take center stage, just for a second in biblical time. Israel complained bitterly about the bleak food of their wilderness wandering. Overwhelmed by the thankless, impossible task God had given, Moses pleaded with God to just kill him if he had any mercy at all. God answered Moses by gathering a number of men at the meeting tent. (And he answered Israel with quail that wouldn't quit.) God portioned out his Spirit so that these men prophesied in deep support for Moses. But Eldad and Medad, though called to the gathering, stayed in the camp. God's Spirit found them anyway and they prophesied too. When Moses' closest assistant, Joshua, heard about it, he sought to squelch all rivalry to Moses. But pointing Joshua away from himself, Moses opened to Joshua's eyes the work of Jehovah God: Would that God's Spirit rest on all.

As we visit with a brother or sister today, we see God's good works in any quarter. And, together, we give thanks wherever on earth God's Spirit moves in the hearts of men and women.