Good morning people of God. Its another great and beautiful day the Lord has made and we must rejoice and be glad in it, am rejoicing in it already, how about you?
Our reading today covers Numbers 29-34 and our memory verse is Numbers 31:2 "Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people." To be gathered unto thy people in this parlance means to die.
From Numbers 29, we see Moses religiously and committedly attending to his duties as commanded by God, and in chapter 31 the Lord spoke to him commanding him to avenge the Israelites of the Midianites and get set to die. Moses did as the Lord commanded and after the war against the Midianites, Moses also handled the sharing of the land as can be seen in Numbers 32, 33 & 34.
What does the word 'dogged' mean? It means obstinately determined, persistent, tenacious, perseverance. It means never giving up. The word 'loyalty' means the state of being faithful, being true to a person. When you bring the two words that is our message today it simply means 'obstinate determination to be true to a person. The man Moses is our case study in today's message. Moses encountered God at the Mountain of God and ever since always talked with God one on one, due to the impatient and annoying way the children of Israel complain he offended God in Numbers 20, when God commanded him to speak to the rock and instead he smote the rock with his rod. This act of his made God deny him entering the promised land. His relationship with God did not stop, God continued to talk to him and for everything the Lord commanded him to do or tell the people he did as directed. One would think that may be God will forgive him and allow him enter the promised land but as we can see that was not the case. On the hand Moses did not stop obeying and doing the will of God because God has said he will not enter the promised land. Rather Moses was true to God till the end.
This story of Moses' end left me wondering for days now, how many of us Christians will stay true to our faith if we found ourselves in Moses' situation? I bet a lot of us will give up. In case you don't get the scenario, here is an illustration; you were leading a team of professionals to bid for a contract and along the line you failed in fulfilling one of the conditions and the leader of the organization called your attention to it saying, that for this misconduct from you, your team will get the contract but you will not be a part of the team anymore. After the leader of the organization had pronounced his verdict on you, he still directed you on what must be done for the contract to come to your team. Will you carry out his orders knowing that you will no longer be a part of the team and as such you will not benefit from the contract?
The illustration i guess made it clearer, that was the situation of Moses at the time but he remained loyal to God. In recent times selfishness has become the bane of human co-existence, its all about me, me, me, immediately we realize there is nothing in it for us, we take our leave and abandon the ship to wreck. Today God is using the story of Moses to talk to us. It is high time we forgot self and did the will of God whether it benefits us or not. Remember God sees the end from the beginning and He knows best which is why Proverb says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Till i come your way again, remain blessed.
Our reading today covers Numbers 29-34 and our memory verse is Numbers 31:2 "Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people." To be gathered unto thy people in this parlance means to die.
From Numbers 29, we see Moses religiously and committedly attending to his duties as commanded by God, and in chapter 31 the Lord spoke to him commanding him to avenge the Israelites of the Midianites and get set to die. Moses did as the Lord commanded and after the war against the Midianites, Moses also handled the sharing of the land as can be seen in Numbers 32, 33 & 34.
What does the word 'dogged' mean? It means obstinately determined, persistent, tenacious, perseverance. It means never giving up. The word 'loyalty' means the state of being faithful, being true to a person. When you bring the two words that is our message today it simply means 'obstinate determination to be true to a person. The man Moses is our case study in today's message. Moses encountered God at the Mountain of God and ever since always talked with God one on one, due to the impatient and annoying way the children of Israel complain he offended God in Numbers 20, when God commanded him to speak to the rock and instead he smote the rock with his rod. This act of his made God deny him entering the promised land. His relationship with God did not stop, God continued to talk to him and for everything the Lord commanded him to do or tell the people he did as directed. One would think that may be God will forgive him and allow him enter the promised land but as we can see that was not the case. On the hand Moses did not stop obeying and doing the will of God because God has said he will not enter the promised land. Rather Moses was true to God till the end.
This story of Moses' end left me wondering for days now, how many of us Christians will stay true to our faith if we found ourselves in Moses' situation? I bet a lot of us will give up. In case you don't get the scenario, here is an illustration; you were leading a team of professionals to bid for a contract and along the line you failed in fulfilling one of the conditions and the leader of the organization called your attention to it saying, that for this misconduct from you, your team will get the contract but you will not be a part of the team anymore. After the leader of the organization had pronounced his verdict on you, he still directed you on what must be done for the contract to come to your team. Will you carry out his orders knowing that you will no longer be a part of the team and as such you will not benefit from the contract?
The illustration i guess made it clearer, that was the situation of Moses at the time but he remained loyal to God. In recent times selfishness has become the bane of human co-existence, its all about me, me, me, immediately we realize there is nothing in it for us, we take our leave and abandon the ship to wreck. Today God is using the story of Moses to talk to us. It is high time we forgot self and did the will of God whether it benefits us or not. Remember God sees the end from the beginning and He knows best which is why Proverb says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Till i come your way again, remain blessed.
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