Driven by the Call of God

Think back in your minds to the time of the Exodus when God’s people had rejected the life of faith and so were sent to live in the wilderness “forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed” (Numbers 32:13). Moses remained their leader. Yet what was his job? Was it not to shepherd God’s people, watch over them, and so ensure that the next generation made it to the Promised Land? Moses was not tasked with these things:

• Make God’s people happy.
• Ensure that they multiplied.
• Provide them with their heart’s desire: food, water, meat.

Moses’ job was to make sure that the nation eventually made it to the Promised Land with faith intact. That the children of Israel did not go after the foreign gods and religions of the nation’s surrounding them. And Moses was to help them maintain their vigilance and not return to the land of Egypt.