Monday, December 23, 2013

Are you ever bitter in regard to how God is using you? Deuteronomy 32-34

Deuteronomy 32:4 (NASBStr)
“ The Rock! His work is perfect,
 For all His ways are just;
 A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He.

God's Word does not need my commentary to make it plain and understood.  The Spirit of God does that for us.  If there was ever a passage that needs no explanation, it is the above verse in Moses' final words.   Moses was told by God that he was to go up to the top of the mountain and die.  He was NOT to go into the promise land.  He had wandered next to it and had a chance to taste its fruit and see it from afar.  But, God would not allow him to step a foot into the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.   But, instead of acting on his ego and living in envy, Moses pens the above passage.  He tells us that God does NOTHING without pure perfection and justice.  God is NEVER unjust.   In our world we might think that the greatest prophet that ever lived (Deuteronomy 34:10) would get a chance to at least die in the promise land.   We might claim that this is entirely unfair.   We might say it is unjust.   Yet, it is Moses, himself, who reminds us that God's ways are perfect.    He never makes a mistake in fulfilling out lives and His plan in our lives.  God is the Rock!!   Moses uses that word numerous times in this last poem.   He wants the nation to remember that it was not him who saved them and lead them, it was the Rock ... God the almighty; a God of faithfulness and without injustice.   We can't get bitter when we don't get what we want in God's plan.   God is not going to do anything that is not just and right for us.   We, by faith, believe God has a plan and our moment in time is just part of that plan.   He is our Rock!!

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