Numbers 26 & 27, Luke 7: 36-50, Psalm 53
Numbers 27: 12-14 (ESV)
“The Lord said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim
and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel. When you have seen
it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was, because
you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation
quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.”
(These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)”
When I read verses 12 through 14 from Numbers 27, I felt so sad for Moses. God told Moses to go up a mountain to see the Promised Land, and then said to Moses he would die afterwards. God then reminds Moses that he wouldn’t see the Promised Land because Moses failed to uphold God as Holy in the wilderness of Zin. These verses make me wonder what Moses must have thought when he found out about his fate. Moses had led the people of Israel out of Egypt and then stayed their leader as they wondered through the desert for forty years. The next few verses show that Moses did not question or complain to God about his fate. He did not try to change God’s mid. Whatever Moses felt, he was obedient to God in all things. But as faithful and obedient as Moses was to God, he was not spared punished for his failures. Moses shows us that we need to be obedient to God as well as faithful to him all things.
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