Exodus 24:1-2
"Then He said to Moses, 'Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel, and you shall worship at a distance. Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord…”
Out of the millions of people from the children of Israel, the Lord here calls 73 men to come and worship with Moses but only Moses was allowed to approach God.
Why Moses? Why not somebody else? We saw the choices he made that led to his exile and then forty years later we saw his reluctance in accepting the call of God. So again one may ask, why Moses?
The reality is that Moses had an honest faith in the Lord (Hebrews 11:27) and God can get extraordinary things done with ordinary people who have faith. The application here is to act in faith when called by God. He will give you the strength and the gifts needed to do His will.
Moses followed God's call did what the Lord revealed to him must be done. We are at our best when we faithfully follow the Lord, as Moses had learned to do.
The Truth
“He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens. He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants - God’s own people, Israel.” (Psalm 78:70-71)
