O! Moses, the 21st Century hears your words:
Your teaching drops as the rain,
distilled as the dew,
like gentle rain.
Dt 32:2
So! Take to heart these last words of Moses:
Tell them to your children so,
they may do the Word.
It's your very life.
Dt 32:47
With eyes undimmed and vigor unabated:
Moses blesses those he leaves,
Remember this every day:
There is none like God
Dt 34:26
He rides through the heavens to your help
Through the skies in His Majesty.
The Eternal God is your
Dwelling Place.
Dt 34:26
Three Verses from the mouth of Moses
that have carried me through.
His words have been
Life to me.
Scores and scores of years and years later. And these words of Moses fall like rain on me this day. It's been a tough week. It's not over. I've struggled more than usual. No answers. Trust in this darkness.
What I see in the Book of Joshua: The severity of what is wrong in places like Haiti is a heart-wrenching insight into a fraction of the picture of the severity of what’s wrong in our own hearts. And Oh! The Wonder of a Beautiful God moving through history, our story, to move us into holiness. Oh! The enormity of what He is doing in our lives. “Be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. … This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night.” Joshua 1:8. “Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.” Joshua 1:5. So, right where you are fixed with all emotion and involvement and commitment and confusion---God is with you in the midst of your mess. But make no mistake, you’re a beautiful mess.
PHOTO: And painted on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is that beautiful story from Genesis to Revelation. We are, indeed, a Beautiful mess in this Broken world of ours.
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