The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Numbers 12:6-8,
"When there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions,
I speak to them in dreams.
But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"
Here is the amazing statement from God about Moses.
Miriam and Aaron, Moses' siblings, began to grumble against Moses because of his "Cushite wife", verse 1. The passage doesn't specify what it was they were unhappy about with her, but they questioned Moses' leadership because of it. They claimed the Lord had spoken through them as well, so they apparently felt entitled (or at least emboldened) to challenge Moses.
It did not turn out well for Miriam and Aaron. The Lord immediately called them out to the tabernacle and confronted them with the quote above. They were not to challenge Moses as the Lord's servant, Miriam was struck with a skin disease, and Aaron was reduced to begging Moses not to hold their challenge against them. Moses cried out to the Lord on behalf of the sister who just challenged his leadership, and the Lord healed her.
Moses was to be listened to and accorded the respect that the Lord's man is due. "He [Moses] is faithful in all my [the Lord's] house. We read of this in Hebrews 3:1-6,
"Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 'Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house,' bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory."
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"When there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions,
I speak to them in dreams.
But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"
Here is the amazing statement from God about Moses.
Miriam and Aaron, Moses' siblings, began to grumble against Moses because of his "Cushite wife", verse 1. The passage doesn't specify what it was they were unhappy about with her, but they questioned Moses' leadership because of it. They claimed the Lord had spoken through them as well, so they apparently felt entitled (or at least emboldened) to challenge Moses.
It did not turn out well for Miriam and Aaron. The Lord immediately called them out to the tabernacle and confronted them with the quote above. They were not to challenge Moses as the Lord's servant, Miriam was struck with a skin disease, and Aaron was reduced to begging Moses not to hold their challenge against them. Moses cried out to the Lord on behalf of the sister who just challenged his leadership, and the Lord healed her.
Moses was to be listened to and accorded the respect that the Lord's man is due. "He [Moses] is faithful in all my [the Lord's] house. We read of this in Hebrews 3:1-6,
"Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 'Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house,' bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory."
Just as Moses was declared by the Lord to be faithful in all God's house, Jesus is found to be worthy of greater honor than Moses, since Jesus is not simply a faithful servant in all God's house, but ,in fact, he is the Son over God's house. And, we are to listen to him!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know.
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