“Thou shalt be to him instead of God” (Ex. iv. 16).
Such was God’s promise to Moses, and such the high character that Moses
was to assume toward Aaron, his brother. May it not suggest a high and
glorious place that each of us may occupy toward all whom we meet, instead
of God?
What a dignity and glory it would give our lives, could we uniformly
realize this high calling! How it would lead us to act toward our
fellow-men! God can always be depended upon. God is without variableness
or shadow of turning. God’s word is unchangeable, and we can trust Him
without reserve or question. Oh, that we might so live that men can trust
us, even as God!
Again, God has no needs or wants to be supplied. He is always giving.
“Rich unto all that call upon Him.” The glory of His nature is love,
unselfish love, and beneficence toward all His creatures. The Divine life
is a self-forgetting life, a life that has nothing to do but love and
bless.
Let us so live, representing our Master here, while He represents us
before the Throne on high.