BRAGADAYJAH 510

BRAGADAYJAY 510

Moses, a man chosen by God

It is self-evident that when God choses a man for a specific task, that man may not be perfect; but he is well suited, and one may even say best suited for that task.  This can clearly be said of Moses.  He was not perfect in every respect; but he feared and honored and served God as best he could and surely no man can do better than his best. 
So that when Moses fell short, God took away from him, not his eternal reward, but a bit of his earthy satisfaction. So, God told him, you embarrassed me in the matter of the rock.  I told you to peak to the rock and you disobeyed me; you allowed your pride and or your anger to get the better of you and did not do as I commanded you; therefore, you shall see this new land; but never taste it.  Therefore the Lord commanded him to prepare Joshua to take over from him and lead the people in.  And in the meantime Moses was to encourage and strengthen Joshua; even though, he was not the one destined to lead them in.  “True you have lead them for forty years, Moses, but you blew it.  Therefore I shall take away one star from your crown.”

Many of us would have been at best reluctantly and more likely grudgingly disposed towards our successor; but not Moses.  He accepted God’s will for him.  He willingly resigned himself to the fact that he would die on his side of the Jordan, and that his only remaining function was to prepare Joshua and the new generation of Israel to enter into, and possess the land on the other side, the land of Canaan.

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