Nobody Greater

His route? or his route?

When we study the Old Testament, we see that Moses was seen as a great mediator, a great intercessor, and someone you look up to in order to get closer to Christ.

This was because before the Israelites could get access from God, they had to go through Aaron who was a High priest, and Moses - they did not have direct access to God.

The Jews then grew fond of Moses, because amongst all the other prophets, Moses was the only one that spoke to God 'mouth to mouth', through Moses God gave His law; Moses lead the Israelites when they fled from Egypt and he parted the Red Sea, and so much more!

So we can see why Moses was highly favoured in the eyes of the Jews.

Now if we think of our Modern day Moses,

We'd probably have elders and pastors in mind, who have been given mandates from God to teach, oversee, lead, and care for the people of the Church.

However, God still encourages us to pray and He will provide His riches through Jesus Christ

But we need to be careful, because although we may genuinely be seeking help in areas of our faith, we will begin to subconsciously continue seeking this same person regarding many other issues when it comes to our faith.

But through this act our actions portray that we are become too devoted to a particular person, and what this demonstrates is we are thinking of this person to be greater than Jesus.

And I've put it like that because Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

Jesus who was higher than the angels, became lower than the angels in order to raise men who have fallen, up with him in exhortation, glory and power.
And although we acknowledge that there is power in Jesus Christ, we aren't appreciating the access God has given us through Jesus Christ, because some of us are overdependent of the assistance of man like the Israelites depending on Moses.
The only difference was in the Old Testament grace hadn't been introduced, therefore man had to depend on Moses who had direct access to God in order to be shown the way.

However, grace was introduced to us after the death of Jesus Christ, whereby the curtain in the temple which the only the High Priests could go through in order to go enter the holy of holy's and have direct access of God tore into two, therefore everyone now has direct access to God by merited favour.

So it is through Jesus that we can attain wisdom, knowledge, understanding, He has availed Himself in a way that it is easily accessible for us to connect to Him by faith and obedience.

But instead of directly looking unto Jesus, some of us are looking unto our modern day Moses.

And just like the Jews, instead of being disciples of Christ they became disciples of Moses, and this is where the issue lies.

As Christians, we have all called to be ambassadors of Christ.

Just like Moses, we are to be faithful servants in Gods house, but Jesus who is a son over Gods house is greater than the house itself because He built the house.

In addition, God has made us all in His own Image and Likeliness, so if we are to seek help in areas concerning our lives, would it make sense to ask another one of God's creation or ask the creator Himself?

Christ's sufficiency supersedes all human efforts, so our modern day Moses could have only attained His wisdom, His understanding, and His knowledge through faith and obedience of His Word.

Our modern day Moses wouldn't be much like the real Moses because in the Old Testament, because it was only through the real Moses that people could have access to God, because Jesus Christ hadn't been sent therefore grace wouldn't have been introduced to the people of that time yet. However, now that we have grace and the Holy Spirit we have direct access to God ourselves.

Our modern day Moses wouldn't relate much to the real Moses, because Moses redeemed the first born sons of Israel by instructing them to put blood of lamb on their door posts and roasting its flesh on the first passover, but now we have Jesus who is the true sacrificial First born son, who John the baptist identified as 'the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world', and through Jesus Christ we have ultimate redemption.

Our modern day Moses is indifferent to you and I as a person, however has attained all righteousness from the Holy Spirit, and because the Holy Spirit has been given to us all as an advocate that indicates that we are all able to receive the same abundance of grace.

Humans are only able to give us humanly knowledge and humanly understanding, although their advice can be helpful it cannot compare to the divine knowledge and divine understanding we can attain through the Holy Spirit.

As Christians the Holy Spirit dwells in every single one of us, and we have direct access to speak to God by His sufficient grace. 

Love and Blessings, 

Melissa-Ann Rose

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Hebrews 3:1-6 NKJV

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.