Humble man called Moses

Moses was someone whom God spoke to face-to-face. Can anybody imagine what that means? I figured it like this: I have noticed that in the many accounts written by Moses regarding the journey to the Promised Land, God descended from the pillar of smoke and appeared before Moses so many times. Its as if God was just someone who got off a plane and you see step out of the sliding doors at the airport; He appears and you can physically greet and welcome Him. Moses had that type of relationship with God and I really admire that sort of intimacy with our Maker.

But the most amazing part of Moses's relationship with God is not just that they saw each other in the face, but that God was even willing to defend him in he face of accusation and opposition, even from other "Godly" men. Numbers 12 showed a particular episode where Moses found himself accused of having a foreign 'exotic' wife from Ethiopia by Aaron and Miriam. God actually went out of the way to call all three persons into His presence at the Tabernacle, where He once again descended in a cloud of smoke. God spoke out against Aaron and Miriam, in a statement that continues to baffle and amaze me since when I first read it some time ago. Can you imagine? You are been accused of an act, which the highest authority in all of existence has no problem with, and the highest authority actually stoops down to become your advocate!

Here is what He actually says:
"Hear now My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, make Myself known
to him in a vision;
I speak to him in a dream.
Not so with My servant Moses;
He is faithful in all My House.
I speak with him face to face,
Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
And he sees the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?"

Wouldn't anyone want to have this type of advocate when they are faced with a problem? I know I would. What made God so favor Moses? Well, as WH shared to me yesterday, the answer was in the same chapter: verse 3. Moses was the most humble man in all the world. I remember John Bevere once said also that humility is one of the factors in maintaining an intimate relationship with God.

But notice that this verse was in Numbers... and for those who know a bit about the background of this book, something very strange immediately comes to mind. Didn't Moses himself wrote the book? Why is he writing that he was humble? Isn't that like a paradox? At first I thought it was too. Until I considered what humility really is.

So what is humility? Its not putting yourself down, but putting yourself where you really belong in God. Why, Moses wasn't humble just because he said it in his book, it is actually because of his actions. What he wrote in Numbers was just the truth.Its not about playing down the gifts that God has given us, but knowing where we really are despite those gifts. Its about knowing where we are with God: we are His servant, to be faithful in His House. We are nothing without God. To understand and to live like this is the sign of a person with true humility.