Lessons from the Life of Moses (Part Two)

We, too, pass through the Red Sea, through the desert, across the Jordan into the promised land. With Israel we fall into doubt and unbelief and through punishment and repentance experience again God’s help and faithfulness.

If you want a wonderful experience, take your New Testament and use a concordance to look up the two little words, but God.

The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

Exalting Christ, then, by worship, witness, and service, as the main focus of our uplifting up the triune God, should be our constant aim.

The absence of Moses simply gave the Israelites the opportunity to “worship openly what they had been worshiping in their hearts.

Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world.

Nothing cures ingratitude as quickly as a good memory.

God’s choice acquaintances are humble men.

Brothers, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.