Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Numbers chapter 11 verses 24 through 30:
24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. 25Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. 26 Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27And a young man ran and told Moses, ‘Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.’ 28And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, ‘My lord Moses, stop them!’ 29But Moses said to him, ‘Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!’ 30And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
The Spirit of the LORD just refuses to be contained. It has this way of erupting, arising, breaking out, going beyond. The Spirit simply refuses to be held down by the rules, regulations, and expectations of our conventional thinking (no pun intended).
Unsanctioned and unscripted the wind blows where it will. It traverses boundaries and brings fire to whomever it wills. The wind blows and the Spirit falls upon the sanctioned.
No church or denomination can stop the Spirit. Trying to control or deny it is ultimately impossible. It cannot be contained. It will not be contained.
So the best thing the leaders can do, rather than setting up road blocks, is to learn to do what Moses did when he saw the Spirit’s movement and the potency of its power, and surprised everyone by saying, “Would that there were more of this and not less.”
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