Today’s Scripture Reading (October 3,
2012): Deuteronomy 34
Who are the
players that are on your top NFL players of all time list? Does Jerry Rice make
the top spot, or maybe Jim Brown? What about Joe Montana, what position does he
garner on your list? And when is it that some of the more contemporary players
get to break into the list? Even for sports fans, those are hard questions. And
I think our answers to the question tend to be more emotional than factual. For
one thing it is hard to compare a wide receiver like Jerry Rice with a running
back like Jim Brown or a quarterback like Joe Montana.
Sometimes I
even find players that play the same position hard to compare. I mean, which
Manning brother is the better quarterback. I think most of the world would
probably pick Peyton – but Eli has more championships even though he has played
fewer years. Is all of that just because Eli has played for a better team, or
does he get some credit for the championships? And which one is better?
When it
comes to the list of prophets, the first on the list is always Moses. There is
no question or any suggestion of a prophet to replace him. No one comes close.
It was Moses that had taken the nation out of slavery and into their
independence. It was Moses that had received the law from God – and Moses that
met with God face to face as a man meets with a friend. There would be other
miracle workers, but no one would be able to make the claim that they had met with
God in an intimate way like Moses had.
No one, that
is, until Jesus. When Jesus said that he had come to fulfill the law, the
intention the people would have heard in the teaching was that Jesus had come
to finish what Moses had started. When Jesus fed the 5000 and the 4000, the people
would have imagined Moses feeding the people in the desert with manna. And when
Jesus and Moses met on the Mount of Transfiguration, the greatest prophet met
with God once again.
Tomorrow’s Scripture Reading: Psalm
91
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