The Meaning Of Life

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Why is anyone but Moses still alive? Everyone, except maybe Caleb and Joshua have turned against God at one time or another since the exodus. If God was angry and vengeful, wouldn’t He have killed them by now?

That’s because God isn’t those things. He is a loving, kind, merciful God, just like Jesus.

I know what scripture says. I know that God sent a flood that killed everyone but Noah and his family, but they were given a choice, and they chose to turn their backs on God, and not heed His warnings, just like the people of today who are ignoring God, rebelling against Him, mocking Him. He gave them the choice to get behind Noah and be saved. So they killed themselves.

I know God is powerful. He parted the Red Sea so the Hebrews could cross and be saved from the Egyptians. So I am fully aware God has the ability to “open up the ground” and swallow those who were against Moses and Aaron. But there has to be a better explanation than an angry and vengeful God.

Once again, God told Moses to get away from the men that were with Korah before He “consumes” them. I still contest that actual “fire” doesn’t come from God, but I do believe He exposes His Glory to those and allows it to consume the sinners.

Remember when Moses asked to see the face of God, and God even told Moses, who was a devout servant, that he could not, and He put Moses in the cleft of a rock and passed behind him. He knew that His Glory was to bright for even Moses to withstand, how could a common sinner withstand it.

And again I say, I believe that is how the wicked die in the end. I don’t believe in an eternal burning hell, and I don’t believe God kills the sinners with fire. I simply believe that if you’re not a believer, that if you’re not faithful, if you are of your own accord wicked, I believe God will show Himself, and you will not be able to withstand the brightness of His Glory, and you will be “consumed” by it.

But once again, Moses intercedes for those sinners, and God relents. If God was angry and vengeful, do you think Moses could change His mind? The Bible says God never changes, so why would He be so angry at the rebels that He is set on killing them, yet Moses is able to change God’s mind?

Think about this. What if Moses hadn’t prayed to God and interceded on behalf of the rebels. What if he had just backed away and said, “Let the chips fall where they may.” Would God have consumed them? Or, like those who perished in the flood, were they given the opportunity to repent, asked for forgiveness, and God would have forgiven them?

That’s all we have to do folks. We have to love God enough that we are sorry for our sins. We have to love God enough that we confess to Him that we are sinners, to ask for His forgiveness, then to show Him we aren’t just giving Him lip service, we have to do out upmost best to stay on the straight and narrow.

Again I will say, we remain faithful to our spouses not because adultery is against the law, we don’t remain faithful but it is one of the Ten Commandments, we remain faithful to our spouses because we love them and don’t want to hurt them.

It’s the same for God. We don’t obey Him because it’s the law, we don’t obey Him because it’s the “right thing to do”, we obey Him because we love Him, and we don’t want to hurt Him.

Amen.