Surely now
everyone will understand that Moses is God’s chosen leader of the people and
the rest will stand down. It is amazing
to me that there were continual challenges to Moses after all the Lord had done
through Him and all the signs that had been given. Where were Korah, Dathan and Abiram when the
Lord called Moses on the mountain and gave him the tables of the Law? The presumption of these men is remarkable
and yet it is a constant problem in the church.
We see it in our movement today and in every move of the Spirit that I
know of we see this same pattern.
Leadership of God’s people requires humility, it is not a path to
greatness. The Lord is the true leader
and chooses whom He will to be His representative as leader.
Had the
disciples left everything to follow Jesus in the hopes of receiving worldly
treasure and thrones? It would actually
seem that this was the case, their motives were not to seek the heavenly
reward. They understood that if a man
had much, a Jewish man, it was due to the blessing of God in his life and they
are scandalized when Jesus says it is actually nigh on to impossible for a rich
man to enter the kingdom. If the rich,
who have God’s blessing, cannot enter, how can anyone then get in? That same mentality prevails in the church
today in many cases, wealth is taken to be a sign of God’s blessing. This passage would certainly seem to indicate
that there is no definite correlation between the two. If we have followed Jesus in order to escape
suffering in this world we have followed the wrong man.
What was the
blessing Abraham received? It was not
the Land nor was it the fulfillment of many children, it was a cave in the Land
in which Sarah was buried and one child yet Abraham believed God would do as He
promised, even before he left to go to the land and even before Isaac was
born. These all were received by faith,
not by sight. Abraham’s faith was tested
over those long years of waiting for the birth of a son and that faith wavered
in first offering Eleazar as heir and then in the plot to bring forth a son
with Hagar, but the Lord had already justified Abraham that day when he first
believed. Once justified, Abraham didn’t
lose that justification when faith wavered, it was sealed in circumcision. The blessing of Abraham was the certain
knowledge he possessed that God would do according to His promise whether
Abraham saw it in his eyes or not. Our
blessings are stored up in heaven, we know they will be ours because of our
faith in Jesus’ sacrifice and in His resurrection.
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