Spiritual Strength For Each Day
“Now Moses kept the flock…and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb” (Exodus 3:1).
A meeting with the Lord always has overwhelming consequences. Regarding the decisive meeting that Moses had with the Lord, let us ask ourselves, whom did the Lord meet here?
• A man who had come to rest. Moses had become a shepherd. Is there a more restful occupation than that? Everything had come to rest in and around him. It had taken him forty long years to attain to this. Now he was ready to meet God.
• A truthful man. Moses and the sheep belonged together; they understood one another, or he would not have stood it for so long. In this we see his truthfulness. Jesus said later on, “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice” (John 18:37), and, “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27). Moses had become truthful. This is the condition for a meeting with the Lord.
• A disappointed man. Moses was a man who was disappointed in life. His efforts to deliver his people from slavery had failed. On the contrary, he had to flee for his life and was considered lost in the desert. Here God met with him. Here Moses received a new commission.
