Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
The prayer of Moses in Psalm 90 is uncannily appropriate to God's people today. Moses was "exiled" in Midian, living among what might be called lukewarm "church members in good and regular standing," for the Midianites worshipped the true God and prided themselves on being descendants of Abraham through Keturah (Gen. 25:1, 2); but they were not absorbed in the mission of Israel as Moses was. They weren't concerned (as Moses was) night and day about the salvation of the world, the coming of the Messiah, and those seven grand promises that God had made to Abraham in Genesis 12:2, 3 and how God had said, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called," not "in Keturah's descendants" (Gen. 21:12).
Even Moses' own wife, Zipporah, being a Midianite, apparently did not fully share her husband's dreams, for we never hear from her, no "song of Zipporah" as we hear the "song of Miriam" (Ex. 15:21). The parents of Moses had instilled into him the destiny of delivering Israel from slavery and settling them in the Promised Land so they could fulfill Heaven's gospel plans for the world. And now Moses' life work is in ruins; he is a failure, a mere sheepherder. It seems to him that Israel is doomed to be forever a race of slaves, and the world will never be "lightened" with the glory of the gospel entrusted to Israel.
Now today: modern "Israel" is lukewarm as were the Midianites (Rev. 3:14-17); few carry the heart-burden of a people being prepared for the actual second coming of Christ; few are concerned to understand what is the message that Revelation says must "lighten the earth with glory" so that a Voice from heaven can speak to every honest-hearted soul in "Babylon."
Few are concerned as Moses in Midian was concerned--about the triumph of "the great controversy between Christ and Satan," the honor and vindication of the Son of God. Most are content with the popular philosophy (as they understand it) to "occupy till I come" in the enjoyment of continued material prosperity and a mere token support of God's work. But Moses in Midian prays night and day for the deliverance of Israel; the burden of a lost world is on his heart.
What kind of "burden" do you carry?
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: January 30, 2001.
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