But then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. Exodus 15:20
Who was Miriam in the bible? What did God give her to do? And she was one out of so many others that was perfect-right?
Miriam had two brothers. We know them as Aaron (her older brother) and Moses. (her baby brother) You will remember the story of Moses when his mother made him a basket and hid him in the bulrushes on the Nile River, to hide him from Pharaoh who wanted all baby boys to be thrown into the river.
Indeed, God had other plans for Moses. Miriam was instrumental in saving his life and their mother got to help care for him.
Miriam, along with Moses and Aaron were the ones that led God's people from Egypt's slavery to the Promise Land. But it twas Miriam that led the women into worshiping God with their tambourines and dancing, after the Egyptian army were thrown into the Red Sea.
God had used her in his service. But here again we have a non-perfect woman, doing His work and like all others that God called and is still calling today, she too had some rough edges that needed to be smoothed off and sins to be forgiven.
She and Aaron began to complain. (Really, who does that?) And she began to criticize and question why God had chosen Moses as their leader. Numbers 12:1-2.
As we can imagine, this did not make God happy at all. Aaron did repent of his sin. But God struck Miriam with leprosy Moses prayed for his sister and after she had been quarantined for a week, God healed her.. Numbers 12:13.Why didn't Aaron suffer like Miriam had? Was it because he was quick to ask forgiveness and she wasn't? Did she need to learn a harder lesson? We don't know, but how about you and I.....
...do we bridle our tongue? It is sometimes a hard thing to do. And yet, we are called to do it. And the wonderful thing about God is that even though there are consequences to our sin, when we truly repents, he does forgive us. He knows we are not perfect but we are perfect for whatever it is he wants us to do even during those times that we don't feel we are even qualified.
Thanks for coming by today Friends. I pray you are having a wonderful week so far. God bless you and yours.
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