Discipleship Growth

            Two months ago, way back on August 25^th, we met Moses together for the first time. Some of us, naturally, had met Moses before, in Sunday School, maybe, or in our devotions, or from another preacher’s sermons. But August 25^th was the first time that you and I met him together. He was just a baby back then, a little child at the mercy of his dedicated mother and sister, a boy threatened by a vicious Pharaoh. Since then we’ve watched Moses’ life go by, scene after scene: at the burning bush, before the throne of Pharaoh, crossing through the Red Sea, receiving the manna, striking the rock, hearing the Ten Commandments, standing in the breach, and beholding God’s glory from the cleft of a rock. Now, at the last, we find ourselves saddened by Moses’ death, at the edge of the Promised Land.