(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Numbers 12:1–3, “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)”
We saw, in the previous chapter, that there was envy when two of the seventy councillors didn’t come to the Tabernacle when the Lord’s Spirit came upon all the councillors. These men were in their own camp area and they prophesied as well. Joshua asked Moses to stop these men from prophesying but Moses told him not to be envious on Moses’ behalf. In this case it was Moses’ own family who were envious of his status as the man called by the Lord. Both Aaron and Miriam were older than Moses and should, in the normal order of things, taken precedence over him but the Lord looked into Moses heart and knew that he had the proper attitude before the Lord. Moses also married a foreigner and, they believed, should have been disqualified from service to the Lord’s people on that account. Moses was a man who had seen the Lord’s glory and understood that the Lord was all powerful and full of grace. He was willing to the trust the Lord to work and just obeyed the Lord. Moses wasn’t interested in looking out for his own interests, he was willing to trust the Lord and obey the Lord. Moses knew that the Lord’s will would be done and he could rely on the Lord to care for him.
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