Hello dear ones, I finally got access to the internet here in Kentucky. The last few days of rhemas are on the blog on Dec. 31 dkrhemas.wordpress.com
Vs. 4 “I have caused thee to see I with thine eyes but thou shalt not go over thither.” This was God speaking to Moses just prior to his death. He was allowing Moses to view the Promised Land from a mountain top but not to enter it.
Vs. 9 “And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom: for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him and did as the Lord commanded Moses.” Joshua was chosen by
God to take the place of Moses after his death and lead the children into the Promised Land.
I am here in Kentucky at my sister’s camp for a few days. I feel prompted to share a portion from the biography I wrote about my parents: (Edith is my grandmother and Herbert is my father.)
Chapter 25
Edith’s grandfather, Josephus Moore bought several hundred acres of land in Kentucky. Much of it he sold off to people who wanted it for the coal. He deeded the rest of the land to his eight children. One of those sons was Speed Moore, Edith’s father. He was a school teacher in Kentucky, in a one room school house.
Edith inherited some of the Kentucky land. My Father loved this land. He and his siblings would eventually inherit this land, about twenty five acres each and not very valuable. He offered to buy their share of the land for more than a fair price and I think that they were happy to sell it to him. Every few years, he would drive up to check on the land.
One year he went up to see the property and he and his youngest child, Daniel Herbert, were up on a 300 foot hill on the property. They found some stones piled up on top of each other. Some were three and four feet in diameter and two or three on top of each other. One larger one was on top. He wondered if maybe his great grandfather had made an altar there. He got on his knees and dedicated the land to God and for his glory. He had a dream that it would someday be a Christian camp.
As it turned out, like King David, my father never saw his dream come true by his own hand, but by God calling his third born, Faith, to carry out that mission. After years of feeling that call, she and her husband Eric, sold their lovely home. They had a yard sale and what they didn’t sell, they then had friends and family come over and choose anything they wanted.
I watched that day as she gave away things she had treasured for years for a far greater treasure, God’s perfect will. Her blue glass collection was especially sad for me to see be given away because I knew she loved it. There was just no room for any furniture or any of the other things.
They were going to live on the land in a little travel trailer without any electricity or running water, except the water running down the mountain. Little did they realize that they would have to live like that for a full year? They bathed and washed in the stream water and went a mile to a neighbor’s to fill their bottles for drinking water.
That day at her yard sale before they left I asked her, “Faith, how are you doing with all this? Isn’t this incredibly hard for you to give all this up?”
I know she answered honestly, “No, not at all. There are just things. I want to do what God wants me to do.”
She is a woman of faith in my life. How I love that sister of mine. She has taught me so much. A picture of my father kneeling at that altar on the mountain is a real treasure to us. Perhaps he can look down from Heaven and see that little camp that is changing so many of the lives of those needy mountain children and teenagers. Perhaps he can fellowship with King David and say, “Well, David, your son’s building was a lot bigger than my daughter’s project but I feel just as excited as you did!”
To this day, my sister says that many who come to the camp often mention the peace that they feel.
In our lifetime we may not accomplish all that we desire to do. Are we remaining faithful in the task before us? Are we training our children and being an example to others around us in such a way that they want to take up the mantle in service for God and carry out the great commission to reach the lost, and live to glorify Him? Let’s ask God to develop in us and in our children how to be full of the spirit of wisdom.
