The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Numbers 27:3-11, “’Our father died in the desert. He was not a member of the party who banded together against Yahweh, Korah’s party; it was for his own sin that he died without sons.
4 Why should our father’s name be lost to his clan? Since he had no son, give us some property like our father’s kinsmen.’
5 Moses took their case before Yahweh,
6 and Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
7 ‘Zelophehad’s daughters are right in what they say. You will indeed give them a property to be their heritage among their father’s kinsmen; see that their father’s heritage is passed on to them.
8 Then speak to the Israelites and say, “If a man dies without sons, his heritage will pass to his daughter.
9 If he has no daughter, the heritage will go to his brothers.
10 If he has no brothers, his heritage will go to his father’s brothers.
11 If his father has no brothers, his heritage will go to the member of his clan who is most nearly related; it will become his property. This will be a legal rule for the Israelites, as Yahweh has ordered Moses.”‘

“That’s mine! Give it to me! You have no right to that; it’s mine, I said!”

Ever hear anything like that around your house?
Well, maybe… when you were a small child. But,
this was serious business. Korah and his kinfolks had gone against the LORD and the LORD dealt with them, putting them to death.

Now, the daughters of Zelophehad go to Moses
with the plea that they have no inheritance in the new land because they had no brothers. They reminded Moses that their father had stood for the LORD, but now his name would be omitted from the inheritances in the new land.

It was a unique situation; so Moses took the matter directly to the LORD, and the LORD sided
with the daughters of Zelophehad. Further, He said, when a family has no sons, the father’s heritage will go to his closest relative. In this case, with no male relatives in the family, the heritage went to Zelophehad’s daughters.

The LORD always makes provision for His children. If you are His child, He loves you regardless of your gender. Whatever He sets forth in His Word becomes the responsibility of those to whom He has assigned it.

What responsibility has the LORD assigned to you? Have you fulfilled it today? If not, why not? There is still time. Go do it now! Time is running out!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom