Deuteronomy 34 Moses’ death and burial

It has been some years since my father died and the memories of that day are in the past and are hardly remembered. He lived, he died and was buried in the land of the north. There was little mourning.  Mother refused to let us mourn but encouraged us to move on and return to our work and other things. How unlike the death of Moses. He lived, he died and was buried on Mt. Nebo in some unknown place. The people mourned for thirty days and then moved on with Joshua as the new leader. 

Elijah and Enoch lived but did not die for God took them home to heaven. There was no mourning but life moved on and we have their witness in the Word. Moses died and we have his witness in these last chapters of this book. 

So what are we to glean from these last chapters? We are to recall the life of this man. As the book of Hebrews tells us: “Now Moses was faithful in all God’shouse as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.” Is this our life’s testimony as well? Are we faithful in all of God’s house? Stay faithful dear ones so you will receive the same eulogy as this servant of the Lord.