Friday January 10

How to be Really Great

Is. 57: 15 For thus says the High and Lofty One…I dwell in the high and holy place with him who has a contrite and humble spirit

When we think about Moses, we remember him standing up before the great Pharaoh and ordering him to let go God’s children. We also remember how he made water become blood and called down frogs over Egypt and made the Red Sea divide and made a dry rock give water. Of course, it was God who allowed Moses to do those great things. Yeah, Moses was a great guy. But what really makes Moses a role model was not those miracles but the kind of person he was.

In the beginning, Moses had a bad temper and violent behaviour. He even killed a man and had to run away from Egypt. But God changed Moses, just as he can change you and me and he became so much like God! Moses gave up everything he had and even put his life at risk to save the people of Israel. Even though he was afraid of Pharaoh he still went to Egypt when God sent him because he was obedient to God and he loved God’s people.

Moses was loving and kind and forgave the people over and over, even when they were ungrateful and wanted to kill him. He worked really hard for the people. Although sometimes he was very tired he didn’t stop to think about himself. He taught the people God’s law and was patient even when they wouldn’t learn. One day when God was angry with the Children of Israel and said “I am going to destroy them”, Moses actually said to God: “Please don’t destroy them. If you have to punish somebody destroy me instead of them”!

Would you be willing to say that? What made Moses such a special person? He was not a superman. He was a person like you and me. But he wanted to be like God and he allowed God to change him and make him truly great. You know, God can do the same thing for you or me. In fact He wants to do it. All we need to do is tell Him how willing we are to allow Him to change us.

Lord, I am so far from the kind of person I should be and that I want to be. Begin to change me today that I will truly be like you, in Jesus’ name, amen.