![]() Let us now fall into the hand of the LORD for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man." Then David said to Gad, ``I am in great distress. So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, ``Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me." ``Go and speak to David, `Thus the LORD says, ``I am offering you three things choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you."'" ![]() When David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly." So David said to the LORD, ``I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now David's heart troubled him after he had numbered the people. So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.Īnd Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon,Īnd came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba. They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jazer. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel. Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, ``Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people."īut Joab said to the king, ``Now may the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" Now again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, ``Go, number Israel and Judah." Jesus doesn’t want us to be weighed down by fear. ![]() When we rest in the knowledge that God is in charge, we can exchange anxiety for peace. But we must remember that He is always in control-even in times of difficulty. In their panic, the disciples believed that a sleeping Jesus wasn’t in control of their circumstances. But with it, we can experience inner calm in the midst of hardship.īelieving in God’s sovereignty is the key to a peaceful heart. Without His tranquility, we feel helpless and afraid like the disciples. Jesus has promised to give us His peace (John 14:27)-this is the very same peace that enabled Him to sleep through a storm. The next thing the disciples knew, they were engulfed in a storm, and the one person powerful enough to protect them was blissfully unaware. Luke tells us that one time Jesus and the disciples got on a boat to reach the other side of a lake, and Jesus fell asleep. Have you ever fallen asleep on a long trip? Jesus did.
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