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Husband. Dad. Exvangelical Pastor. Hospice Chaplain. Short Fiction Writer. Theology Nerd. Cinephile. There are too many books to read before I die. He/Him. š³ļøāš ally. Sojourner with the Appalachian Order.
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To quote Andy Dufresne in āThe Shawshank Redemptionā:
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
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Encounters with Jesus give us hopeāfor little things, for life changing things, for things that may not happen in our lifetime, and like Moses, for things that wonāt happen in our lifetime.
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But you cannot set one foot into the land. Everything you hoped for and dreamed of for your entire life does not come to pass.
Until, well over a millennium after your death, youāre standing with Jesus.
The mount of transfiguration is the first time Moses got to stand in the Promised Land.
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Midrash says Moses was angry with God and argued, begged, and pleaded to go ināeven praying 515 times (the numerical value of the Hebrew word for ābegā). But God still said no.
Imagine climbing Mt Pisgah and God showing you that land (and, according to Midrash, the future of your people).
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Imagine God calling you to lead your people to that promiseāand getting close but the people refuse to enter and you spend the next forty years wandering, interceding, and leading this throng who have so much trouble trusting God.
Imagine God saying you can lead to it, but you canāt go in.
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Thereās a detail hiding in plain sight in the gospel accounts of the transfiguration.
Imagine being Moses and hearing about this promise God had made to your forefathers. Imagine seeing your people enslaved, wondering when God would make good on that promise.
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#JubileeVerses
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Preach!
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~Psalmsā¬ ā86ā¬:ā1ā¬-ā4ā¬ āNIVā¬ā¬
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~āāPsalmsā¬ ā72ā¬:ā12ā¬-ā14ā¬ āNLTā¬ā¬
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~ Psalmsā¬ ā70ā¬:ā4ā¬-ā5ā¬ āNLTā¬ā¬
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#SoflyMiles2025 15.66
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But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.ā
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~Psalmsā¬ ā37ā¬:ā12-ā17ā¬ āNIVā¬ā¬
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