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Thursday, August 27, 2015

OT DAY 302 - Did Moses Finishing Well? (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1. Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2. Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1. Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2. Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3. Open your heart to praise the Lord

   So he brought his people out with joy,
his chosen ones with singing.
44   And he gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
45   that they might keep his statutes
and observe his laws.
Praise the Lord!

Psalm 105:43-45

Confession and Repentance

1. Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2. Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 32:48-52)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 32&version=ESV

48 That very day the Lord spoke to Moses, 49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession. 50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. 52 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

Even Moses died and could not enter into the Promised Land! I was deeply sad when I prepare today's blog. There is a lesson we need to learn before it is too late.

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

Once again God tells Moses he is going to die on the mountain heights east of the Jordan; he will not lead Israel into the promised land. Yet there is a sense in which his work is done…
The Moses project is complete. Moses dies when he has lived a full life, three whole generations. My rector used to say, "Moses spent forty years learning to be somebody, forty years learning to be nobody, and forty years showing what God could do with someone who had learned to be nobody." If that is right, it suggests another sense in which God is done with Moses…
Moses has been a faithful servant who has made one mistake, and God could have overlooked it but does not do so.
Maybe something else is going on. Moses belongs to the age that is passing; there is an appropriateness about having a new leader to take Israel into the land itself. Either way, God is prepared to be tough. When God commissioned Moses, it was not for Moses' benefit, and when God decommissions Moses, it is not essentially for reasons to do with Moses but with God's purpose and Israel's destiny. The point is summed up in the title Deuteronomy gives to Moses. He is not a leader but a servant - not a servant of the people but a servant of God.

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.195-196.

My heart is so heavy now when Jesus leads me into a deep thought of what happened to Moses. It seems Moses did not finish well in human eyes. But, in God's eye Moses finish well indeed.

Are you prepared that anytime God calls you home you will finish well in God's eye and that you are a servant of God?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us each day just like Moses to follow you as your humble and faithful servant so that we can be ready anytime if you take us home, we can finish well. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. How does today's message touch your soul?

2. What have you got from Jesus today?

Time with Abba daily reading

Psalm 94:1-11

Job 23:1 - 27:23

2 Cor. 1:12-2:11

Proverbs 22:5-6

Photos of my copying the Bible today using Time with Abba passages today