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Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, of submission to God’s control (Jos 5:13-
meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt 15). James 4:7 exhorts believers to submit
the foal of an ass” (Mat 21:5). The Lord themselves to God. How we need to learn
Jesus said of Himself, “Take my yoke upon dependence upon our God! Interestingly,
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and John the Baptist said of the Lord Jesus,
lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto “There cometh one mightier than I after
your souls” (Mat 11:29). In his appeal to me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not
the believers at Corinth, the apostle Paul worthy to stoop down and unloose”
referred to “the meekness and gentleness (Mar 1:7).
of Christ” (2Co 10:1). The Lord told Moses that He was known
When Moses was grown, it came into to His people in the past by the name of
his heart to visit his brethren (Act 7:23). God Almighty, but He was not known by
Jacob sent his son Joseph out from the His name Jehovah (Exo 6:3). The name
vale of Hebron to learn of the welfare of “God Almighty” is translated from the
his brothers. When a man found him wan- Hebrew El Shaddai, which means “the
dering in the field, Joseph replied, “I seek all-sufficient One.” The name “Jehovah”
my brethren” (Gen 37:13-16). The Lord means “He that is, and that was, and that
Jesus was also sent out. Paul wrote in the is to come.” The name “Jehovah” is associ-
book of Galatians, “But when the fulness ated with God’s eternal power and might.
of the time was come, God sent forth his The Lord told Moses that He would
Son, made of a woman, made under the bring His people out of bondage and into
law, to redeem them that were under the a good and large land flowing with milk
law” (Gal 4:4-5). and honey (6:8). Every redeemed child of
God called Moses from the burning God has been delivered from the bondage
bush. Moses had to remove his shoes of sin and brought into the glorious liberty
because he was standing on holy ground. of the children of God. Paul reminds us in
When God informed Moses that he was the book of Colossians of what God has
going to send him to speak to the people of done through the reconciling, redeeming
Israel, to tell them that God would deliver work of Christ on the cross through the
them from the bondage of Egypt, Moses shedding of His own most precious blood:
enquired of God’s name. God responded, “Who hath delivered us from the power
“I AM THAT I AM” (Exo 3:14), meaning of darkness, and hath translated us into
He that is, and He that was, and He that the kingdom of his dear Son” (Col 1:13).
is to come, the ever-present One. Moses Moses is referred to as a “man of God”
learned something of the holiness of God a number of times in the Scriptures. Godli-
and something of His eternal character ness is linked directly to obedience to the
and abiding presence. God requires holi- Word of God. What we read of Moses
ness in the lives of His people today. Peter over and over is that he did what God
repeated the call to holiness (1Pe 1:16), commanded him to do. The Word of God
citing the Old Testament Scriptures, “Be encourages believers to pursue a life of
ye holy, for I am holy” (Lev 11:44). godliness and holiness (1Ti 4:7; 6:11; 2Pe
Joshua also had to loose his shoe in 3:11). The Lord Jesus said, “Blessed are
the presence of the captain of the hosts they that hear the word of God, and keep
of the Lord. There he learned something it” (Luk 11:28).

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