Can you
believe it? The people came out and
accused Moses and Aaron the very next day.
They are accused of killing the people of the Lord, the three who led
the revolt and those who had offered incense.
Just as Moses was hearing from the Lord concerning the censers of those
killed the day before, they come and make their complaint known. It is incredible that such could happen,
particularly so soon after they had seen for themselves that the Lord was with
Moses. Amazingly, Moses and Aaron
immediately drop to their faces in intercession for their accusers but the
wrath of the Lord is already breaking out.
Moses tells Aaron to intercede for the people, the very ones who have
come against him, just as Jesus prayed, “Father forgive them for they know not
what they do” and just as Stephen prayed for those who were stoning him. We are to emulate these.
Jesus
continues the message of the last will be first and the first will be
last. Those hired earlier in the day
have developed a sense of entitlement and superiority to those chosen later in
the day, they believe themselves to be more special than these others as they
have labored longer for the owner. We
easily develop this same sense of entitlement and superiority the longer we
serve, we forget that it was grace in the beginning, grace in the middle and
grace in the end. We forget we were
chosen for no reason other than God chose us and it is grace that kept us safe
thus far and grace ‘twill lead us home.
We have added nothing to the equation no matter how long we have served,
God does as He wills and if He chooses to reward those chosen last with the
same reward as those who have long served, it is His prerogative, let us always
celebrate the grace we have received.
It is
interesting that Paul can say that Abraham’s faith did not waver when he
considered his age and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. Certainly he and Sarah laughed when they
heard the promise that in a year she would conceive and bring forth a son, whom
they called Isaac, laughter. Wavering
faith and failed faith are different things, they did consider that, however
unlikely, nothing was impossible for God, and they saw the fruit of the promise
in the birth of the child. It was grace
alone which brought forth this child, he was a child of promise, received by
faith with joy. Dare we have faith in
what God has promised to us, even if, for all the world, it looks as though it
is impossible? Let us walk humbly in our
faith in all things.
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