Humility is our response to the grace that God gave us: grace upon grace. Numbers 12:3 says, "Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth." God told them that He doesn't have to speak to Moses in riddles, but clearly face to face without sending any prophets to speak to him. What is it that makes Moses one of the most humble man on the earth? How did Moses responded to God's grace?
That is something that we each had to find out! All we know is that Moses gave up his high position to be with his people, obeyed God even when he didn't speak fluently and got "Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?" as a response, led Israel out of Egypt, carried His laws, delegated his leadership to Joshua, and lastly he created new songs so that the people may remember Him and how His grace had helped them. When he prepared to leave his people to die, he passed down the lengthy song and lengthy blessing to Joshua and Israel!
I think somewhere in Moses' story, Moses' saying, "I did all of this for God's name not mine." Moses is able to give up his high position given by Egypt in order to be with God. He could stay in this political position as he waits to become a Pharaoh to be able to get things in order, but he degraded himself to save his people! Even more, in God's kingdom, he is able to give up his leadership position that God had given him in order to pass it down to Joshua and walk alone with Him to die! Moses knew that nothing of this world belong to him, but that he belonged to the kingdom of God. He followed God all the way!
"Humility and death are in their very nature one: humility is the bud; in death the fruit is ripened to perfection." - Andrew Murray, Humility: Beauty of Holiness
"Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed: pride has budded. Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them." -Ezekiel the street prophet, Ezekiel 7:10-11
Notice how humility budded to make their death fruitful while pride budded to make their death violence and unfruitful in comparision. Are you willingly to give up your name to be part of His name, to be part of something bigger and fruitful? So that you may be part of the answer to Jesus' last prayer before he went to the cross for us?
God promised, "I will put an end to the pride of the strong."
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