露臉 露恩

Finding Face, Saving Grace

Category: Faith

  • Numbers: giving out of what was given…

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    Reading: Numbers 16:36-19:22

    Focus: Numbers 18:21-32

    In some corporate businesses, employees are encouraged to buy shares in the company. To encourage the practice, employees are given shares each year in the company as part of their wages. By doing so, the company seeks to encourage its employees to invest further by buying more shares in the company. In some sense, such a practice results in the employee paying their own wage. It encourages productivity and ownership of the company by its own employees.

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  • Numbers: only by blood…

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    Reading: Numbers 14:1-16:35

    Focus: Numbers 15:22-36

    With children, when they make a genuine mistake, parents are gentle and understanding. However, when they deliberately disobey or cause trouble, parents need to discipline them. One of the hardest things for parents is to draw the fine line between grace and discipline; especially when the genuine, unintentional mistakes are quite serious in matter. The sudden outburst of frustration is not what the child needs, but rather understanding even when accompanied by a firm, yet gracious, rebuke. However, discipline must be made firm, even when gracious, that a child recognises the consequences of their actions. (Heck, the same thing applies to all people at any level…)

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  • Numbers: a leader’s burden…

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    Reading: Numbers 10:11-13:33

    Focus: Numbers 11:10-30

    Being up the top can be hard. There’s a lot of weight carried upon the shoulders of the head-honchos. All the responsibility of decision making, keeping people happy, leading the way into a new era of success and growth… it isn’t easy. The pressure and stress can really get to you and you might just snap. Just that little something which you didn’t need, and it pushes you over the edge—you’ve had enough, you want out, you want it to end…!

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  • Numbers: following in His steps…

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    Reading: Numbers 7:1-10:10

    Focus: Numbers 9:15-23

    In the army, soldiers submit to the authority of the commanding officer. When the commander makes the decision to move out, everyone moves out; when he makes the decision to camp, everyone sets up camp. There is little room to question the decisions of the commander. Whether the camp stays for a day, a week, a month is entirely up to the commander free to move his officers with a simple command.

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  • Numbers: representatives and ambassadors

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    Reading: Numbers 4:1-6:27

    Focus: Numbers 6:22-27

    When people represent an organisation or ambassadors represent a country, they carry the identity of their representatives with them. They share and represent the values and cause of their representatives. Further, it is not merely in their presentations and public appearances where these are shared, but it also in their private lives which come under scrutiny. Where high profile business representatives and ambassadors have fallen in their private lives, organisations and governments have often had to pick up the pieces…

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