In one of the addresses Moses made to the people of God, he spoke of how he had asked God to let him participate by going into the Promised Land with the people. To show the people how much he wanted that privilege he said he implored with God. To implore is to insistently ask. But finally God told Moses enough. Stop! What I have for you is enough and my plan must be valued as more perfect than your desires. Moses could remember the glories of his past but could not see all that God had planned for him even after his death. God made it clear that His plans alone were perfect. Moses had to let go of regrets and any dependency he had on continuing his leadership role with Israel.How did he know at the time he was imploring God that it was God's
intent to "roll away the reproach" of Egypt from His people through the
leadership of the next leader Joshua? (Joshua 5) How was Moses to know that one day he would be seen walking and talking with his Lord and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration?
I think we would all agree that it is difficult sometimes to trust God and be in agreement with His plans especially if it involves what we perceive to be a loss. But we cannot be ignorant and we cannot demean the value of them. It was a disgrace for God's people to be caught in slavery in Egypt and God intended to right that wrong at the crossing of the Jordan using Joshua. Moses got to watch the greater Joshua right the eternal wrong of the hold of sin on people. We cannot become arrogant and make assumptions or become presumptive. When Paul wrote to the church in Rome he was very concerned about them maybe becoming arrogant or presumptive about how God felt about the Jews. He said the Romans were subject to arrogance if they did not understand. And so he proceeded to tell them God's plan to bring Gentile and Jew into "one new man." Paul admitted it was a mystery but the value of the plan had to be accepted. The timing of, and our participation in, the will of God is perfect. And our acceptance must never waiver.
I think we would all agree that it is difficult sometimes to trust God and be in agreement with His plans especially if it involves what we perceive to be a loss. But we cannot be ignorant and we cannot demean the value of them. It was a disgrace for God's people to be caught in slavery in Egypt and God intended to right that wrong at the crossing of the Jordan using Joshua. Moses got to watch the greater Joshua right the eternal wrong of the hold of sin on people. We cannot become arrogant and make assumptions or become presumptive. When Paul wrote to the church in Rome he was very concerned about them maybe becoming arrogant or presumptive about how God felt about the Jews. He said the Romans were subject to arrogance if they did not understand. And so he proceeded to tell them God's plan to bring Gentile and Jew into "one new man." Paul admitted it was a mystery but the value of the plan had to be accepted. The timing of, and our participation in, the will of God is perfect. And our acceptance must never waiver.
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