This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
As someone who believes in predestination, The story of Moses is one of the hardest-hitting parts of the Bible. No one else in the Bible do you see a person “change the mind” of God like moses does. The relationship they seem to have seems to be so close. Almost even closer than the relationship of Abraham and God.
It talks about in Numbers 12 that Moses talks to Moses mouth to mouth, and earlier, in Genesis 33, it says God talks to Moses face-to-face. God had such a close relationship with Moses. It also talks about how Moses was the meekest of anyone in Israel…which is pretty crazy when you think of the fact that there were probably about a million people at this time.
It certainly seemed like there were a lot of qualities of Moses that would not be chosen of someone in a leadership role, yet this quality of meekness it says he was more so than anyone else.
Moses loves this people so much, and it is so clearly evident the way that he constantly intercedes for the people. I wish I had written down how many times it says that Moses fell on his face and asked God about something. He is constantly asking God to not pronounce judgment on the people. He even goes to the lengths of giving himself in their place if God will save them. That he will take their punishment for their salvation…wow. What a man. If ever there was a man to “change God’s mind,” it was Moses.
I still believe in predestination, however, that might seem impossible with reading this passage. I believe that it is still possible and that responsibility still lies on us to make decisions from day-to-day. But this is quite the story of a man that loves God’s people.