Lent

Tuesday in Lent

Tuesday, March 14, 2028

FIRST READING

Numbers 14:10b-24

Verse 10. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting. Verse 11. And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them? Verse 12. I will strike them with a plague and destroy them — and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” Verse 13. But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them. Verse 14. And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Verse 15. If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say, Verse 16. ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’ Verse 17. So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared: Verse 18. ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’ Verse 19. Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.” Verse 20. “I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied. Verse 21. “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, Verse 22. not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness — yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times — Verse 23. not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it. Verse 24. But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

PSALM

Psalm 105:1-42

Verse 1. Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.
Verse 2. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.
Verse 3. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
Verse 4. Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Verse 5. Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
Verse 6. O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
Verse 7. He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.
Verse 8. He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
Verse 9. the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
Verse 10. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Verse 11. “I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
Verse 12. When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,
Verse 13. they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Verse 14. He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
Verse 15. “Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
Verse 16. He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
Verse 17. He sent a man before them— Joseph, sold as a slave.
Verse 18. They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
Verse 19. until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.
Verse 20. The king sent and released him; the ruler of peoples set him free.
Verse 21. He made him master of his household, ruler over all his substance,
Verse 22. to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.
Verse 23. Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
Verse 24. And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,
Verse 25. whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.
Verse 26. He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
Verse 27. They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Verse 28. He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
Verse 29. He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
Verse 30. Their land teemed with frogs, even in their royal chambers.
Verse 31. He spoke, and insects swarmed— gnats throughout their country.
Verse 32. He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
Verse 33. He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.
Verse 34. He spoke, and the locusts came— young locusts without number.
Verse 35. They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
Verse 36. Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.
Verse 37. He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
Verse 38. Egypt was glad when they departed, for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.
Verse 39. He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
Verse 40. They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
Verse 41. He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
Verse 42. For He remembered His holy promise to Abraham His servant.

SECOND READING

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Verse 1. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. Verse 2. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Verse 3. They all ate the same spiritual food Verse 4. and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Verse 5. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. Verse 6. These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. Verse 7. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” Verse 8. We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. Verse 9. We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes. Verse 10. And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel. Verse 11. Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. Verse 12. So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall. Verse 13. No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.