It wasn’t Moses’ fault…
Was speaking to someone yesterday and talking about life, ministry…all that stuff.
They made a comment that man can not stop what God wants to do in a church.
I thought about that a lot…and I don’t agree.
The murmurers among the Children of Israel stopped the whole nation from moving into blessing.
They wasted 40 years of everyone’s time.
They cause a whole group to die in the wilderness, not the promised land.
It was never Moses’ fault.
And yet Moses, Joshua, Caleb and their families paid the price for it.
The children of the murmurers paid the price for it.
It was the lazy and fearful who delayed the building of the walls of Jerusalem, not the leadership.
It was the selfish, jealous brothers who sold Joseph into slavery.
We are all called to add something to a body.
We are all called like members to work in concert with one another, not against one another.
The murmurers against Moses could have wandered back to Egypt themselves. They could have wandered off into the desert and died themselves.
But they wouldn’t.
They were cowards.
They needed, like Jim Jones, a wolf, to slather as many sheep as he could to validate his point of view.
The people of influence who murmured against Moses were not after the good of the nation of Israel…no…time and time again we see that it was the Shepherd Moses who cared for others.
What they wanted was to take from Moses everything that he had spent his life building and use it for themselves. And what did their selfish ambitions bring to those around them?
Death, destruction and unfulfilled potential.
What did their repeated rebellion cost Moses?
His immediate dream.
They pushed him beyond endurance by there murmuring, unfair accusations, refusal to listen, refusal to make a stand, continual maintenance of detrimental relationships with people who spoke out against him, and by refusing to believe the best in him.
And how did Moses respond?
He sinned..he disobeyed God.
BUT..and here is the big BUT (I love God and how He does this):
Regardless of the hard-hearted attitude of the people who pushed Moses, God was able to turn things around with the promise that Moses will be one of the prophets that will used in the second coming of our Lord.
Gen 50:20
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
And for anyone in Christian leadership…that is a GREAT promise.
It is a promise that if you faithfully serve God and passionately pursue all you are believing for…it doesn’t matter how the road bends, it always gets you to where you are supposed to in God.