"The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."— Numbers 6:24-26
You know, sometimes God does something so remarkable that it just stops you in your tracks and makes you shake your head in wonder.
Back in 1979, an archaeologist named Gabriel Barkay was excavating a series of ancient burial caves just southwest of Jerusalem. His team figured the tombs had been picked clean by looters centuries before, and honestly, they weren't expecting much. But then a thirteen-year-old volunteer started poking around the floor of one of those caves with a stick, and that stick found a crack, and that crack led to a hidden chamber that every looter for a thousand years had walked right past without knowing it was there.
Inside that little hidden room, tucked away like a secret God had been keeping, were two tiny silver scrolls, rolled up so small they looked like cigarette butts. They were so fragile it took the Israel Museum three full years just to figure out how to unroll them without turning them to dust.
And when they finally opened those scrolls, they found words. Words scratched into ancient silver in a script 2,600 years old. Words from the time of the prophet Jeremiah and the First Temple. The oldest known portion of the Bible ever discovered. And do you know what those words were? The Priestly Blessing from Numbers chapter six:
"The LORD bless thee, and keep thee."
Friend, that blessing was being spoken over God's people before the Babylonians came. Before Rome rose and fell. Before the Middle Ages, before the Reformation, before two World Wars. And it is still true this very moment.
Here's what hit me about this. Those scrolls were worn as amulets, meant to carry the blessing of God with them wherever they went, even into death. And isn't that exactly what God's Word does? It goes with us into every dark place, every uncertain cave, every moment when the world feels like it has been picked clean and there's nothing left.
History is just HIS story, and He has been speaking this blessing over His children for a very long time.
"The LORD bless thee, and keep thee." He hasn't stopped saying it. He's saying it over you today.
Let's pray: Father, thank You that Your Word has outlasted every empire and every enemy. Thank You that the same blessing You spoke over Your people 2,600 years ago still covers us today. Help us to rest in the fact that You are keeping us, right now, today. In Jesus' name, Amen.
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