Exploring the Text: Hope for the future
Because he had disobeyed God (Numbers 20:10-13), Moses was not allowed to go into the promised land. He had let the people out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the very edge of God's promise, but he was not able to go in. Instead, God takes him to the top of a mountain to show him the promise land. Moses gets to see God's promise, he gets to see God's plan for his people, before he passes away. He may not get to experience it, but he dies seeing the hope of his people.
Moses had brought his people to this point. He had prepared the way for them to step into God's blessing; he prepared the way for the future. Sometimes God calls us to do the same, to invest in a hope and a future that we may not personally experience. Maybe we are in a place where we cannot see our hopes and our dreams come to pass, but, like Moses, we can prepare the way for the people who come after us to step into God's promises and blessings.
David Dalton
Because he had disobeyed God (Numbers 20:10-13), Moses was not allowed to go into the promised land. He had let the people out of Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the very edge of God's promise, but he was not able to go in. Instead, God takes him to the top of a mountain to show him the promise land. Moses gets to see God's promise, he gets to see God's plan for his people, before he passes away. He may not get to experience it, but he dies seeing the hope of his people.
Moses had brought his people to this point. He had prepared the way for them to step into God's blessing; he prepared the way for the future. Sometimes God calls us to do the same, to invest in a hope and a future that we may not personally experience. Maybe we are in a place where we cannot see our hopes and our dreams come to pass, but, like Moses, we can prepare the way for the people who come after us to step into God's promises and blessings.
David Dalton