Have ever seen your goal so close that you could almost touch it, only to have it pulled away? How did that make you feel? Were you heartbroken? Were you depressed? Did you long all the more to achieve your goal? How do you think Moses felt as he looked at the promised land?
We all have goals. Sometimes those goals big goals. When we get close to them, we start getting anxious. We may strive all the harder to achieve them. We may be overcome with nervousness or anxiety and fail to reach our goal. That is when we can get depressed.
Moses was in a situation unlike any situation we will ever be in. He had been called by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. He led them through various trials as they wondered the desert for forty years. He was told by God he would lead the Israelites to the promised land. He led them to it. God showed him the promised land from a mountain top. But Moses was not allowed to go into the promised land.
Can you imagine having been on a mission for God for more than half your life, then being told you will not see the mission to its completion? That was Moses. God works that way at times. He provides a mission to us but does not allow us to finish. He has someone else in mind to finish what we have started. Just like Moses, we must graciously accept his will.
I pray we all accept God’s mission. I pray we accept his will for our lives. I pray each one of us will pursue God’s mission with all our heart and accept we will not finish it if it is God’s will. Know that God has a mission for you. Accept his mission. Graciously accept his will.
Deuteronomy 34:4 The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
Marty Pressey 