STAY HUMBLE

DAY 82

Reference text: Exodus 32:7-14

About Israel, God said ‘I have seen this people’ (Ex 32:9a). A similar language is used when Jesus encountered Nathaniel and told him ‘while you were under the fig tree, I saw you (Jn 1:48). Whenever sight is referenced to God, He does not see using just the sense of sight as we might know, but the employing of a faculty that is beyond sensorial perception.

As we notice with Nathaniel, he was described by Jesus as “an Israelite in whom there was no deceit”. That was not just inferred from seeing him physically. By virtue of this perspective of God’s seeing, in our text today, God made an offer to Moses: I will wipe out all of Israel except you, and make a nation out of you (vs 10).

Therefore, many questions arise, main among them: “What quality did Moses possess that made him an ideal candidate for a nation God preferred over Israel?”Scripture is not silent about this because whereas Israel was described as stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate, rebellious), the man Moses was very humble (gentle, kind, devoid of self-righteousness), more than any man who was on the face of the earth (Numbers 12:3). That was the trait: humility.

So simply because you are proud, haughty, rebellious and stubborn is no objective index that you are at the  top of game. In fact, in the eyes of God, your pride and rebellion will be the traits that elect you for divine resistance and disapproval.

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