Day 95- Numbers 16; 1 John 2

So, here we have the valley of death and then we have a warning to walk in the Light and not the darkness.  Seems to be perfectly paired.  Some days, I falter and I do feel like I am stumbling in the darkness.  Other days seem very clear and bright.

Henry notes,

Note, Those that take upon them to control and contradict God’s appointment take too much upon them. It is enough for us to submit; it is too much to prescribe.

Elsewhere we have seen that the Lord will not give us more than we can bare. 

On the difference between the truth and lies in 1 John 2, Henry writes,


"Truth and falsehood do not well mix and suit together. Those that are well acquainted with Christian truth are thereby well fortified against antichristian error and delusion. No lie belongs to religion, either natural or revealed. The apostles most of all condemned lies, and showed the inconsistency of lies with their doctrine: they would have been the most self-condemned persons had they propagated the truth by lies. It is a commendation of the Christian religion that it so well accords with natural religion, which is the foundation of it, that it so well accords with the Jewish religion, which contained the elements or rudiments of it. No lie is of the truth; frauds and impostures then are very unfit means to support and propagate the truth. I suppose it had been better with the state of religion if they had never been used. The result of them appears in the infidelity of our age; the detection of ancient pious frauds and wiles has almost run our age into atheism and irreligion; but the greatest actors and sufferers for the Christian revelation would assure us that no lie is of the truth."