What can we learn from the death of Moses?
Each of us has a Jordan river that we will not cross, a promised land that we will not enter and work that we will not complete. Even though we may not achieve all that we set out to do in life, we must work hard and do our best.
Moses was chosen by God to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt after centuries of slavery. He, and his brother Aaron were the prophets of God who initiated the ten plagues in God’s name to bring Pharoah and the Egyptian empire to its knees. The goal of the exodus was to bring the people to Mt. Sinai for the revelation of God and then lead them to the promised land.
At the end of the day, Moses brings the nation to the bank of the Jordan river, but it is his student Joshua who leads them to the promised land. Moses only gets to the see the land from the peak of Mt. Nebo.
You could easily make the mistake of seeing Moses’s life as a failure. After all he did not complete the mission that was assigned to him, namely, to lead the Jewish people into the land.
This mistake is based on seeing value only in the outcome and not seeing the process as important and valuable. Unfortunately, we live in a world where success is celebrated and honored for the most part when tasks are completed. By this standard, since Moses did not complete the task, his life was a failure.
Seeing life as only outcome based is not only wrong, but also sad.
God put us each in this world with particular skills, personality traits, strengths, weaknesses and challenges. No two people are exactly the same. Each person is precious in the eyes of God just like they are an only child.
The goal of life is not to complete the mission, it is to take all that we have been given by God and live life in service of Him by exerting our maximum effort. God knows your heart and it is what He desires.
Think of it this way. When a person goes jogging the goal is not to get from point a to point b. If that were the case, they could just drive. The goal is what happens between point a and point b. It is the effort of jogging that matters. Some may run faster and others slower. What is most important is that you run the pace that you are capable of!
A great Jewish Sage Rabbi Tarfon put it this way: “The work is not for you to complete, nor are you free to desist from it.” The task of all that we want to achieve in this world seems impossible to complete, nevertheless we must begin and put in a maximum effort.
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