Moses, who was Moses? This one man changed the course of civilisation and founded the world we live in today by leading a people called Israelites into having a law system beyond any law the world had ever known. He was a mediator. He mediated between his people and this Almighty being which had just brought about their Exodus from Egypt. He received the law from this Being, God. Then came the day when it all unravelled. They rebelled so badly that God said to Moses, “Let me destroy them and start again with you, making a new people from your own offspring.” No, said Moses, please don’t. So we have Israel today, to a great extent biologically descended from Abraham who was the famous believer in God long before Moses. Abraham was biological ancestor to the Israelite people of Moses and even to the Jews today. Abraham had believed in God and God promised to produce a nation from his offspring which would bless the world. Then many centuries later came a new man from whom God would start again. Everyone failed to be the believers worthy of being people of God, on the whole, though some proved to be true to the ways of Abraham and Moses. One man lives up to it all and does not fail. Jesus Christ became the new man from whom God could start again. Yet God did not merely destroy the other people. They continued but with salt to preserve them from utter corruption, the preserving salt of the people of Jesus Christ, not biological descendants this time but disciples joined to Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit within them. God is starting again. We can step back and look at Jesus as the one who is not blind about God, who really knows God and had lived obedient to God unto death and been raised again to live forever. Now as we encounter Jesus by believing in him and following his teachings we find awareness of the one true God who sent him. We pray to this God out of the knowledge of God and awareness of His wisdom, power and love for us that Jesus produces in us. God becomes the God for us.
