Phinehas intervened and God saw it!
God sees the intentions and motives of your heart clearly and judges you accordingly.
In that crowd of tens of thousands, God saw the true intentions of Phinehas, one insignificant individual for he wasn't a Moses or Aaron. He wasn't seeking anything for himself but for the glory of the One whom he was living silently for.
There are those who sincerely and truthfully seek the Lord and do not yearn for any kind of recognition from this world.This recognition would mean nothing to them.Phinehas was one of them.
While the people around you enjoy the best of situations minus God's judgement because of your acts of intervention, the heavy toll of doing God's will on earth rests on you and sometimes becomes unbearable. Like Phinehas, who has to bear with the guilt of killing the 'curse' all his life.Like the Lord Jesus Christ who had to do God's will even death on the cross for our sins and not His.
Numbers 25:6-8 (New International Version)
Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;
Phinehas knew how God viewed the matter,even before he needed to be warned.Today we will need God to warn us first because we don't really know what is God's will for us,don't we?
