Mar 8 - Make Some Noise!

In Numbers today the Lord says to Moses "Make two trumpets of hammered silver for calling the community to assemble and for signaling the breaking of camp. When both trumpets are blown, everyone must gather before you at the entrance of the Tabernacle. But if only one trumpet is blown, then only the leaders-the heads of the clans of Israel-must present themselves to you. When you sound the signal to move on, the tribes camped on the east side of the Tabernacle must break camp and move forward. When you sound the signal a second time , the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on. But when you call the people to an assembly, blow the trumpets with a different signal."
"When you arrive in your own land and go to war against your enemies who attack you, sound the alarm with the trumpets. Then the Lord your God will remember you and rescue you from your enemies. Blow the trumpets in times of gladness, too, sounding them at your annual festivals and at the beginning of each month. and blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings. The trumpets will remind the Lord your God of his covenant with you. I am the Lord your God." Jimminie Crickets! It seems everyday I read there are more rules and regs and do this then, make that, these people go here, those there, they do this when you do that! How in the heck did they remember all of this! I'm fairly confident that i would have made it about a week and then been turned into a pile of ashes for botching something. Heck I have trouble remembering what Boo and I have planned from one weekend to the next......I have been known to double book in the past:)

In the New Testament Jesus goes with his disciples to eat the Passover meal. He tells the disciples that there is a betrayer among them. Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, "Am I the one?" OK what kind of question is that!? I'm pretty sure that if I was planning to have someone killed I wouldn't have to ask him if I was the one that was going to do it! Especially just hours before it happens!

Jesus replies "It is the one of you twelve who is eating from this bowl with me. For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!" I'm sure glad I wasn't chosen for that job........