Deut32:51 For both of you betrayed me... You failed to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel there. So you will see the land from a distance, but you may not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel”.
THE GREATEST PASTOR THAT EVER LIVED
Do you know the greatest pastor that ever lived? In my opinion, I think Moses deserves that award. I don't know of any Pastor whether dead or living that had the kind of shepherd's heart Moses had.
He led over 3 million people out of Egypt on foot, ensured they are well-fed (physically and spiritually), properly governed and protected. This is no mean feat. I doubt if many of us could bear a little of what Moses bore without giving up. Directly, he pastored 3 million persons in the same location not a congregation divided into branches with several pastors.
The people he led criticized and frustrated him even to a point where God wanted to destroy them all except Moses and his family yet Pastor Moses pleaded with God to spare them and God did(Ex32:9-14). That's a true Pastor. If I was Moses, I would have given God the permisssion to kill them all.
There is a need to know why pastor Moses did not make it to the promised land despite being the meekest man on the earth. The ticking time bomb of anger in him that manifested while in Egypt and later in his ministry was what prevented him from entering the promised land. While in Egypt, that anger appeared to him as a "holy" anger but it was all Satan needed to bring him down.
In Egypt, he killed an Egyptian out of anger(Ex2:11-15), the devil saw it and he saw in Moses what he could use to bring him down but he didn't act on it immediately. Again, when he returned from the mountain and he saw them worshipping a calf, out of anger, he broke the stone tablet (Ex32:19). The devil said 'yes, this seed is growing'.
Candidly, his anger seems justified considering the stress of fasting, climbing mountains and praying but God didn't see it that way. His anger is not daily but occasional, yet it was his undoing.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when he hit the rock out of anger instead of speaking to it, (Num20:11). That was how he missed it. From the first time he killed till he lost it at the rock, If I'm not wrong in my calculations, it took a space of almost 80 solid years.
The seed of hell that bring men down from destiny and glory sometimes doesn't grow on time but the devil knows it is there. It manifest at the time that matters most.
Jesus boldly declared that the prince of this world x-rayed him but couldn't find anything that belongs to hell in him(John14:30). Can you say the same thing about your life?
We all need a thorough purging. Saints of old never cease to ask God to purge them of whatever the enemy might use against them as the climb the ladder of greatness.
Paul prayed saying, "And the very God of peace sanctify( purge, cleanse) you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" ( Emphasis mine 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Your earnest desire should be for a thorough purging so that God can snuff out the ticking time bomb in your life.
Father, purge from my life every destructive seed and ingredients of hell In Jesus name.