Good Morning Pastor John,
I was reading in Deuteronomy and this part (below) really touched me. To know that Moses desperately wanted to see God’s promised land, but it was not what God was going to give him, and that God told him to encourage and strengthen the brother He was going to give it to (Joshua) touched me. God knew Moses had a heart that could do that for Joshua (even though he wanted what God was giving to Joshua instead). And it is the same heart He wants us to have with each other, and be happy for those who receive things from God that we would like to have received. I am praying to have that kind of heart.
Deuteronomy 3
- “And I sought the favor of Jehovah at that time, saying,
- ‘O Lord Jehovah, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what God is there in the heavens or in the earth who can do such as your works and your mighty deeds.
- I beg you, let me cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country, and Lebanon.’
- But Jehovah was cross with me for your sake, and He would not hear me. And Jehovah said to me, ‘Enough from you! Never speak to me of this matter again.
- Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over this Jordan.
- And charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.’
Beth