2024-12-31 “enough” : Moses’ success review

 The gist of 2024 year end review: the word is “enough”. Whatever you have been doing fruitlessly in the year of 2024, wandering in a circle of stress, distress, confusion, blindness, and deaf ears, making losses and getting into debts and relationship beyond your means to repay or sustain, the word is “enough” on this New Year Eve. It’s not too late to cut loss and close that “venture”. On the other hand, if you have already cut loss just in time, congratulations!

It took the children of Israel 40 years to travel the distance they could have traveled in 11 days from Mount Sinai to the promised land. Their godly visionary leader Moses was circling around the mountain carrying the burden of two million rebellious people (of whom the adult men except two, Joshua and Caleb, were without vision) for forty years. By then he was leading the second generation of the rebellious men who perished in the wilderness. Was Moses defeated? The answer is no. After he succeeded in bringing the people to River Jordan where the Lord would lead them to just cross and take possession, God led him up the mountain to look at the span of the promised land across with divine eyesight and Moses thereafter left this world at 120 years old, with clear eyesight and was as strong as ever body and soul and spirit.

Throughout the conversation between God and Moses, Moses did not even argue his own case. He was happy to enter the rest of God. He knew the reality of God and heaven, a far better place and homeland for him. Moses was contented with a life span of 70s or 80s, but he had to live long for the sake of completing his mission on earth.

Thoughts: Each man to ask: What is my vision for 2025? Am I willing and prepared to continue the course? Am I still walking around the mountain? Surely the Lord wants an answer. The important thing to do is to ask the Lord when we don’t even know how to review our lives.

Prayer: Dear Father God, I admit and repent and renounce all my foolish ways in 2024. Grant me a new start: accurate spiritual discernment, godly wisdom, clear mind (applying the mind of Christ), clear spiritual and physical sight and a renewed body, to see the vision and mission You place in my hand and to have the ability and capacity to execute and complete it. Make me a faithful and good steward of all the resources, knowledge, talents and skills You have granted me. Grant me a heart of just and loving care to others, let me be as Jesus is, especially to those whom You have placed under my charge. Let the fruit of the Spirit manifest in my daily life. Let my pursuit of excellence be centered on serving and ministering to You always. Thank you, Abba Father. I pray in Jesus name.

2024-12-31 Καὶnos

Deuteronomy 1:6-7 The Command to Leave Sinai

The Command to Leave Sinai
6 “When we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 7 It is time to break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the neighboring regions—the Jordan Valley, the hill country, the western foothills,[a] the Negev, and the coastal plain. Go to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, and all the way to the great Euphrates River.Read full chapter

Footnotes
1:7 Hebrew the Shephelah.
Deuteronomy 2:1-3 Remembering Israel’s Wanderings

2 “Then we turned around and headed back across the wilderness toward the Red Sea,[a] just as the Lord had instructed me, and we wandered around in the region of Mount Seir for a long time.

2 “Then at last the Lord said to me, 3 ‘You have been wandering around in this hill country long enough; turn to the north.Read full chapter

Footnotes
2:1 Hebrew sea of reeds.
Deuteronomy 34:1-4 The Death of Moses

Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the Lordshowed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan; 2 all the land of Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; all the land of Judah, extending to the Mediterranean Sea[a]; 3 the Negev; the Jordan Valley with Jericho—the city of palms—as far as Zoar. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have now allowed you to see it with your own eyes, but you will not enter the land.”

5 So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, just as the Lord had said. 6 The Lord buried him[b] in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place. 7 Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever.