Numbers 11:4–6, 10–16, 24–29 (ESV)

⁴Now the rabble that was among [the children of Israel] had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! ⁵We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. ⁶But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at. . . .”

    ¹⁰Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the Lord blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased. ¹¹Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? ¹²Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers? ¹³Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ ¹⁴I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. ¹⁵If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

¹⁶Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. . . .”

²⁴So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. ²⁵Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.

²⁶Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” ²⁸And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” ²⁹But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!”

God‘s almighty hand is working in the ordinary, daily routine of life without you even knowing. In the ordinary, people often do not see God as big enough for their needs, limiting Him to being something like a resident policeman, a meek-and-mild grand old man, or a managing director. But sometimes He does something extraordinary like sending quail or putting some of the Spirit on the elders, giving Moses exactly what he needed to carry the burden of leading the whining Israelites to the Promised Land.  

Despite our limiting Him, God did the most extraordinary thing. He raised His Son, Jesus, from the dead and then He poured out His Spirit on all His people.  Before Christ Jesus came to live the perfect life on earth, the perfect life we were supposed to live but cannot, God put His Spirit on individuals for a particular purpose in a particular time. For instance, He put His Spirit on Moses, on Joshua, on Samson, on David, and on His prophets.  Since Pentecost (fifty days after Jesus paid for our sins on the cross) God pours out His Holy Spirit on all His people.  In 1 Corinthians 3:16 Paul says, “you are God’s temple and God’s Spirit dwells in you.”  That happened in your ordinary Baptism.  By His Word with ordinary water, the extraordinary happens--God dwells in you.

Since God is extraordinary, imagine for a moment of what He can and what He is going to do for you in your life?  I cannot wait to see what He will do!  It will be something extraordinary!  If you think He cannot or that He will not, think again.  Normally, it will be ordinary, but it will be extraordinary when He sends His Son on the last day to take all who believe on Him to be with Him.  He is God, “able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us” (cf. Ephesians 3:20-21).  

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