I have been using the Feasting on the Word‘s Daily Feast: Meditations from Feasting on the Word, Year B for my sermon prep the past few weeks. I am jazzed by the directions it has taken me, places I would not have naturally gone.
In Monday’s devotional using March 18th’s lectionary text, the author focuses on Numbers 21.4-9. The topic: fear! What a great topic for our time! The question posed:
How do/can our fears become idols?
Immediately my mind went to those places and things that so often draw my attention away from my relationships with God and other people. These fears are not the same as my fear of heights (if you want to see a 6 foot, 250 lb guy turn to jelly, get me on a 3 foot step ladder) or of spiders (don’t get me started!). I think the fears [...]