FAITH CAPSULE: The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God.

Numbers 25

The zeal for God is also obvious in the life of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar.
It happened during the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, they sin before God. The sin that provoked the anger and the wrath of God was the joining of Baal of Peor.
The zeal for God in Phinehas answered for the deliverance of the Israelites in Numbers 25:6, “…One of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.” 
The point here is that the Israelites were experiencing the wrath of their sin when one of their brethren repeated the same sin against the command of God. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, with the zeal for God, responded to the sin in Numbers 25:7-8, “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So, the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.” 
The zeal for God in the life of Phineas was the way of his life.
The zeal for God in Phinehas made him see wrongdoing when he responded with right doing before God, for the glory of God.
Today, acclaimed believers are looking away from wrongdoing in the things of God because they lack the zeal for God to react with doing right, against wrongdoing for the glory of God.
The Zeal for God made Phinehas rise from among the congregation, against wrongdoing among the congregation. 
The Zeal for God moved Phinehas to please God and it opened the door of uncommon blessing to Phinehas before God as God spoke to Moses “…Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel because he was zealous with My zeal among them so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal. Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him My covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel’” (Numbers 25:10-13). 
Do you have the zeal for God?
One that does not have the zeal for God will not be clean up for God to occupy.
One that does not have the zeal for God will lack the strength of God to be set for the calling of God in life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal for God to make you be a vessel for His glory and the uplifting of the business of His kingdom.