Moses was a man who had a very broad experience ranging from being raised in a palace to a murderer on the run to a shepherd in hiding to being called by God directly to facing the most powerful man in the world in opposition to leading as many as a million people into the desert to communing directly with the Almighty God receiving the 10 Commandments to a man who lost his temper costing him the opportunity to go into the promised land. Moses was afflicted with stuttering lips yet spoke for God. Even in death he was complicated with no known grave and his body being the subject of arguing between the Archangel Michael and Satan. How could such a man with all this experience in all of these troubles and always highlights of life with the very lowest of points in life be called a man who was content?
Moses was a man with a past. In fact, his past was useful to God who allowed him to experience difficult times in molding his character. Of course, some of the difficulties he had were those he brought on himself. It’s difficult to think of such a monumental personality as a man with limitations. Yet he had them some of which he recognized himself, some of which he brought on himself. Some of those handicaps prevented him from being as obedient to God as he would have preferred. He used drawbacks as a means to excuse himself before God to be disobedience.
Moses was a man with a problem. He seemed to always be facing the question, “now what?” It was not until he was 80 years old that he matured to the point that he could recognize and accept the reality of God in his life so that he could be used by God. Let us say for certain that Moses was a man whose contentment came with the presence of God in his life. Certainly, there were times he was continually doubting himself and his mission but persevered anyway. His experience with God had a major effect on his later life’s behavior and attitude. He is an example to all of us to make life a spiritual adventure. In one sense of the word, we could say that we have the option of either being a hypocrite or a spiritual explorer to discover the amazing things about God.
The example of Moses does not present to us an option concerning God. He reminds us that God is always there whether we recognize him or not. He also reminds us that each and every one of us will answer to the Almighty sometimes in this life but surely in the next.
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