Marked to remember
“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. ~ Numbers 15:38
Have you ever wondered how to stay faithful to God when life feels repetitive, busy, or spiritually quiet? What about trusting God with the small things in life as well as the big and overwhelming situations? Today’s scripture reading shows us that God cares deeply about the small, consistent choices that shape our lives of trust and obedience.
This chapter in the book of Numbers is filled with instructions that may seem ordinary at first glance, yet they carry a powerful message about daily obedience and intentional remembrance. God gave His people visible reminders to keep His commands close to their hearts, especially as they prepared to move forward after failure.
Below are three key points from Numbers 15:
1. God provides grace after failure and invites continued obedience.
After the rebellion in the previous chapter, God did not abandon His people, He gave them guidance for moving forward.
Recognize that mistakes do not disqualify you from walking with God. In current circumstances, this may look like returning to prayer after a setback, choosing obedience even after discouragement, or trusting that God still has a plan despite missing the mark.
2. Daily reminders help guard your heart and direction.
The tassels with the blue thread were meant to keep God’s commands visible and present.
Create intentional reminders of God’s truth in your everyday life. In present circumstances, this can look like placing scripture where you will see it, setting reminders to pause and pray, or establishing habits that keep your focus on God throughout the day.
3. Following God’s direction shapes your identity and purpose over time.
God’s instructions were not meant to burden the people but to remind them who they belonged to.
Let obedience become part of your daily structure instead of a reaction to crisis. In everyday life, this may look like choosing integrity when no one is watching, honoring God in routine decisions, or trusting that small acts of faithfulness build lasting spiritual strength.
For me, I often use fasting meals during the day as a way to keep my mind and heart stayed on Him. When I feel hungry or weak, I use those moments as reminders to spend time praying in the Spirit or reading a promise from His Word. It is not always easy to resist the temptation to eat, but when I ask Him for help, He strengthens me with His grace so that I can stand. Other days I schedule time and set an alarm to step aside during that day to intentionally pause and thank Him for the blessings I am experiencing in that moment.
I began doing this during a season when I felt spiritually disconnected and disappointed in myself for not being as consistent as I wanted to be. God gently showed me that I did not need a dramatic moment to return to Him, I simply needed to make daily choices of faith and intentionally check in with the Holy Spirit. As I started setting aside small moments to pray, read Scripture, and thank Him throughout the day, my heart slowly changed. Those small reminders became anchors that continue to keep me grounded in His presence and purpose even today.
Today I want to encourage you to embrace the power of daily obedience and intentional remembrance. God meets you in ordinary moments and uses consistent faithfulness to shape your heart, your future, and your trust in Him. Set up some reminders today to start turning to Him with the small steps, keep His truth close, and remember that He will help you when you ask. Hold on to the hope that you belong to Him in every season of life you are in.
Today’s scripture reading: Numbers 15
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving to you,
3 and you make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or in your appointed feasts, to make a sweet aroma to the Lord, from the herd or the flock,
4 then he who presents his offering to the Lord shall bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil;
5 and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering you shall prepare with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, for each lamb.
6 Or for a ram you shall prepare as a grain offering two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-third of a hin of oil;
7 and as a drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a sweet aroma to the Lord.
8 And when you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering, or as a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a peace offering to the Lord,
9 then shall be offered with the young bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil;
10 and you shall bring as the drink offering half a hin of wine as an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.
11 ‘Thus it shall be done for each young bull, for each ram, or for each lamb or young goat.
12 According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number.
13 All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.
14 And if a stranger dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do.
15 One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.
16 One law and one custom shall be for you and for the stranger who dwells with you.’ ”
17 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
18 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land to which I bring you,
19 then it will be, when you eat of the bread of the land, that you shall offer up a heave offering to the Lord.
20 You shall offer up a cake of the first of your ground meal as a heave offering; as a heave offering of the threshing floor, so shall you offer it up.
21 Of the first of your ground meal you shall give to the Lord a heave offering throughout your generations.
Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin
22 ‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses—
23 all that the Lord has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day the Lord gave commandment and onward throughout your generations—
24 then it will be, if it is unintentionally committed, without the knowledge of the congregation, that the whole congregation shall offer one young bull as a burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats as a sin offering.
25 So the priest shall make atonement for the whole congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them, for it was unintentional; they shall bring their offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their unintended sin.
26 It shall be forgiven the whole congregation of the children of Israel and the stranger who dwells among them, because all the people did it unintentionally.
27 ‘And if a person sins unintentionally, then he shall bring a female goat in its first year as a sin offering.
28 So the priest shall make atonement for the person who sins unintentionally, when he sins unintentionally before the Lord, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29 You shall have one law for him who sins unintentionally, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwells among them.
Law Concerning Presumptuous Sin
30 ‘But the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the Lord, and he shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord, and has broken His commandment, that person shall be completely cut off; his guilt shall be upon him.’ ”
32 Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
34 They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him.
35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”
36 So, as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.
37 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
38 “Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners.
39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God.
41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
Journal:
- What daily reminders help me stay connected to God
- Where have I allowed discouragement to interrupt obedience
- What small act of faithfulness can I commit to today
- How does remembering who I belong to change my daily choices?
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