Numbers 20:24, 26

I imagine if you are reading this plan it is because you too have lost a dear loved one. The empty void has a way of rearing the ugly head of grief and putting a fog over those left behind. I too have battled grief and as I write this devotional, for the first time, I saw how God handled grief. Come, learn with me!

This is the third part of a reading plan that works through every verse in the Old Testament once, every verse in the New Testament three times, and the Psalms eight times over three years following the lectionary pattern of reading in the Psalms, Old Testament, and New Testament each day.

In the book of Numbers, God demonstrates himself as a pillar of fire and a pillar of smoke, faithfully leading his often rebellious people through the wilderness. Although the faithless wilderness generation was barred from entering the promised land, God was raising up a generation to lead the people from their wandering into the conquest of the land of Canaan.