Aspirations
21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 4-6
21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 4 – 6
Come, join in devotions where we discuss God’s prescribed burnings, His requirement for us to lose our minds as we conform to His image.
January 5
Day 4
Focus: Prescribed Burning
Scripture: 2 Samuel 24:10-15 Living Bible
10 But after he had taken the census [of his men of war], David’s conscience began to bother him, and he said to the Lord, “What I did was very wrong. Please forgive this foolish wickedness of mine.”
11 The next morning the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, who was David’s contact with God.
The Lord said to Gad, 12 “Tell David that I will give him three choices.”
13 So Gad came to David and asked him, “Will you choose seven years of famine across the land, or to flee for three months before your enemies, or to submit to three days of plague? Think this over and let me know what answer to give to God.”
14 “This is a hard decision,” David replied, “but it is better to fall into the hand of the Lord (for his mercy is great) than into the hands of men.”
15 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days; and seventy thousand men died throughout the nation.