Moses
Moses is probably the closest Old Testament example that we have to Jesus Christ. The parallels are striking. His character, his faith, the unique position that he held in the Old Testament as being the go-between for God and the people is very unique. Moses was the child of a slave but he was the son of a queen. Moses was born in the slave quarters but he was raised in the palace of a King. He was born a pauper but he was exposed to virtually unlimited wealth. This was a guy that led God’s Hebrew army to battle but he was also a man who led his father-in-law’s sheep to pasture.
He was educated in the courts of Egypt and yet he lived a majority of his life in the desert. He had the wisdom of Egypt and yet he had the faith of a child. He was backward in speech and yet he could talk to God. He left Egypt as a fugitive but he came back to Egypt as an ambassador for heaven.
Hebrews 11 gives the summary account of this great life and according to the bible his life was a life governed ‘by faith’. By faith his parents hid him for 3 months and paid no attention to the Pharaoh’s command. They brought him down to the place where all the other male children went to die and it was here that Moses found ‘life’. This was not the thinking of a carnal mind. No sane, cognizant parent would take their child to the river and leave him there in an effort to preserve his life. It was ‘by faith’.
No biblical record states that they ever heard a word from God. But since what they did was clearly by faith; and since that kind of faith only comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, it’s fairly safe to say that these parents had heard from God. Their obedience is displayed by their actions and continued the course of destiny that God had for this chosen child. The lesson is simple; when unqualified obedience is demanded by God and we have the good sense to follow through we can expect the impossible to occur.
What am I doing in my life wholly ‘by faith’. Am I blindly believing his never-failing words or am I allowing doubt to drown out what could be my life’s greatest miracle? I want to do something today, this week, this year – by faith!
