Good morning,
As I am writing this Monday Minute a giant storm is working it’s way up the East coast of the United States on its way to Canada and the North. Listening to the commentators and watching the videos of this awesome process is almost dream like, for the Author of this awesome force is never mentioned. Scientists and weather experts try to tell us what to expect and politicians and local police give us reports of the dangers these people are facing, but I haven’t heard one comment about the reality of the God who organized and controls the storm. It seems that information is all that is needed. The cause, purpose and outcome is mildly interesting, but if nothing bad is happening in our back yards the events are soon forgotten. This isn’t particularly surprising news given the conviction that luck and global warming are causing our weather problems. I guess what does concern me is that people who call themselves God’s kids take the same approach to life and these events as folks who want nothing to do with God.
Moses was facing this kind of reality thousands of years ago as the children of Israel were coming to the end of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. Even after all the mighty miracles God did to get them out of Egypt and through the wandering years, the people still seemed unmotivated to think of life in terms of loving the God who had saved them. Some of the people were focused on keeping the rules, while others were focused on getting away with breaking the rules, but few of them were like Moses, Joshua and Caleb who were focused on knowing God and living life to please him and not themselves. Today many people identify Moses with the law of God and the stern commitment to obey them because they should. What Moses tells us about himself here is that he was living in godly fear, wanting to please God because he loved him with all his heart and soul. Since Moses was a fully committed lover, everything that God was doing was part of what Moses thought was important. Moses wasn’t just going through life. He was living an adventure. May the Lord help us to live this way as well. May we be people who are marked by our faithful service, energized by hearts and souls filled with our love for the God of the storm.
Deuteronomy 10:12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? He requires only that you fear the LORD your God, and live in a way that pleases him, and love him and serve him with all your heart and soul.
Roy Wisner
