Numbers 27
Our commitment to high causes is often challenged most at our lowest moments. Moses was committed to making God known as holy and worthy of our entire lives. It was the highest cause he could imagine and he threw himself into it with all his heart. But Moses, at a low point, frustrated with people who would not heed his work of recognizing God's holiness, himself dishonored God in a moment of exasperation. Now the test of his life's work was truly at its fever pitch. What do you do when you turn on the highest good you know? How do you come back from that? When you become what you've preached against, what do you do? Your true colors come to the surface in how you respond to those questions. If your true goal and deepest desire has been to lift God up, you will lift Him up from your lowest point. Moses here proves his mettle by earnestly pleading that God would raise up another to take his place. Why? Because his most sincere desire is to see God's people led to worship Him more and more and without a shepherd, they would scatter and God's Name would suffer.
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