If we know anything about Moses, then we know he was a man who faced adversity.  From the time he was a small child, his life was filled with challenges.

• Consider, Moses was born to a daughter of Levi (a priestly family).
• Moses was born in a time when the Egyptians used violence to force the Israelites to labor to the point of death.
• This was a time when the king of Egypt commanded the midwives to kill the male babies who were born to the Hebrew women.
• Consider how Moses’ mom feared for his young life, so she placed his small body in a basket and hid that basket among the reeds in the Nile River.
• Remember how Moses’ sister watched her little brother floating in the river and remember how she spoke to Pharoah’s daughter.
• Then consider how the daughter of Pharoah carried Moses to her family (almost like a found puppy) and told them how she wanted to keep this new-found baby.
• Quite amazingly, God provided a way (through the actions of Moses’ sister) for Moses’ own mother to serve as the nursemaid/nanny for Moses as he grew up (living in the palace of Pharoah!).  Talk about “rags to riches” Horatio Alger type of life.
• Once grown, we see Moses kill an Egyptian who was beating one of his kinsmen (the Hebrews), and we even see Moses hide the Egyptian’s body in the sand.
• Then we see Moses run for his life.
• That’s when we see Moses take the daughter of a Midian as his wife and settle in a strange land as a herdsman.

Now, clearly, many life-details have been omitted in this brief retelling of Moses’ life, but that is because the most important characteristics are those that focus upon Moses’ walk with God.

Now, again, many life-details have been omitted in this brief retelling of Moses’ life, but that is because the most important characteristics are those that focus upon Moses’ walk with God.

• God provided His people the food they needed.
• God provided His people the clothing and shoes they needed.
• God provided His people with the path they should take to reach the Promised Land.
• God provided His people with the Ten Commandments, using Moses there on the top of Mount Sinai.
• Then when the people rebelled, God provided, yet again, the Ten Commandments for a second time.

That’s when we read:

YET . . .

Again, many life-details have been omitted and even told out of order in this brief retelling of Moses’ life because the most important characteristic to notice is truly Moses’ walk with God.

Even though the LORD led His people in a cloud by day and in a fire by night, still the people were disobedient at times.

In a journey that should have taken eleven days to walk, the children of Israel grumbled and complained as they journeyed, frustrating Moses so much that he disobeyed God at one point.

Early on, God had instructed Moses to strike a rock, and God would provide them water to drink.

Then we read how the people were so thirsty again another time.

God told Moses to speak to the rock, and He (God would) provide them water to drink.

• Yet, Moses was a man so much like us.
• As such, Moses reacted when he should have listened and followed God.
• Then, in a fit of rage, Moses disobeyed God’s direct order to speak to the rock and instead struck the rock with his staff that the LORD had provided.

Even though we disobey, God is merciful !!!

Although we are sinful people, God’s grace covers a multitude of sins !!!

Since we are all appointed one time to live and then comes our death, STILL, GOD PROVIDES THE ONLY WAY FOR US TO SHARE ETERNITY WITH HIM !!!

• It is through men like Moses where we can see just how MERCIFUL OUR GOD REALLY IS TO PROVIDE THE WAY TO SALVATION FOR ALL HUMANITY!
• It is in looking at the final day Moses walked upon this earth where we can see just how LOVING OUR GOD TRULY IS TO SAVE A WRETCH SUCH AS YOU AND ME!  &
• It is in seeing the way God grants His servant Moses permission to see the Promised Land from the top of Mount Nebo where we can see how AMAZING OUR GOD TRULY IS WHO PROVIDES ALL WE EVER NEED—OUR ETERNITY!