If The Lord Took A Census Today

Where Would You Be Counted?

The Book of Numbers recounts the wilderness wanderings of the children of Israel.  The wilderness experience was caused by unbelief and disobedience.  It was a period of testing and maturation to learn to trust and fully depend on God.  What should have been an eleven day journey took the Israelites forty years.  While the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness the Lord told Moses to take a census to include “…all who were able to go to war.”  He was counting and raising up warriors in the wilderness.… Read the rest