The first book of the Bible, Genesis, ends with a promise. “God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” (Genesis 50:24).
The second book in the Bible, Exodus, tells the epic story of how God called Moses, and how God used him to deliver His people from slavery to freedom.
It’s God’s way: When God is about to do something great, He calls a person to join Him in His work.
· When God was about to rain justice on His wayward creation, He called Noah to save a remnant.
· When God was about to build a nation, He called Abram.
· When God was ready to establish an earthly family for His Coming King, He called a David.
· When God was about to build His church, He called Peter.
· When the Gospel was about to spread across the Roman Empire, He called Saul of Tarsus.
· And when God was determined to rescue His beloved people from bondage, He called Moses.
Noah hadn’t ever seen a boat. Abram lived among pagans. David, youngest son of Jesse, was a shepherd-boy. Peter was a fisherman. Saul was a Pharisee, and Moses was a runaway murderer. It’s true: God doesn’t call the equipped. He equips the called.
It is also true that: “Whoever is the least… is the greatest” (Luke 9:48, NLT). Even though God granted Moses great responsibility, authority, and power. “Moses was a very humble man, more so than anyone on the face of the earth”(Numbers 12:3).
Therefore, God gave Moses the greatest of titles… not king, or governor, or general, or sovereign… but Servant. “Moses the servant of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 34:5; see also Exodus 14:31; Numbers 12:7; Deuteronomy 34:5; Joshua 1:1, 7, 13, 15). Would that be a fitting tribute to emblazon your headstone?
In the next few weeks, I’d like to retrace Moses’ one-hundred-twenty-year journey from the Israelite ghetto in Egypt to the peak of Pisgah, overlooking Canaan.
Join me as we remember God’s sovereign selection, God’s sustaining protection, God’s patient grace, God’s unalterable plan, and God’s unparalleled power… and the man God called His “servant.”
“… think on these things” (Philippians 4:8, KJV).
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