Moses Laments His Calling (Num 11:10-15)

12/24/2008 8:44 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                                        Focus:  Moses laments his calling

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Numbers 11:10-15

            Message of the verses:  “10  Now Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, each man at the doorway of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was displeased.  11  So Moses said to the LORD, "Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all this people on me?  12  "Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which You swore to their fathers’?  13  "Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’  14  "I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.  15  "So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.’”

            This is how 1 Peter 5:7 reads:  “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you.”  Moses did this but he told the Lord that the job that He had given to him was too hard and he wanted to die right there on the spot.  This sounds similar to what Elijah told the Lord after a great victory.  Many of the great leaders in the Bible became discouraged including Joshua, David, Jeremiah, and Paul.  Moses was doing a very difficult job in leading the children of Israel towards the Promised Land and whenever those people began to gripe about circumstances that they came into they seemed to turn their eyes off the Lord and onto their troubles and this caused a lot of trouble for Moses.  Dr. Wiersbe writes, “Few things discourage God’s servants more than people criticizing them unjustly and complaining about the blessings the Lord has given.” 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  “It is easy to take my eyes off the Lord in times of difficulties and put them on myself and the circumstances that I find myself in.  God is never going to lead me to something that He will not lead me through, and while going through it I need to keep my eyes upon the Lord and not myself nor my circumstances.

My Steps of Faith for Today:

1. Trust the Lord to give me His grace each day to get through the days activities.
2. Trust the Lord to Guide my path each day.
3. Trust the Lord to teach me and for me to learn contentment.
4. Remember that I am dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Memory verses for the week:                                  Romans 6:5-15

5. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin,
7. for he who has died is freed from sin.
8. Now if we have died with Christ, we believer that we shall also live with Him,
9. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death is no longer master over Him.
10. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11. Even so consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
13. and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments to God.
14. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
15. What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  May it never be!

12/24/2008 9:24 AM