With prophetic sight Moses takes in the whole land of Canaan, from Gilead to the southern desert, across hundreds of kilometers. The promise is fulfilled. And what of it that Moses did not cross the Jordan? Was Palestine really the destination of his path, as it is not the destination of the path of each of us? His path, full of heroic trust in God, of joy in God and bitterness for his people, a path of astonishing revelations and terrible trials, led much farther than the Sinai covenant, farther than Moab and the Jordan. All his life Moses walked toward knowing God face to face. And he is one of the few who traveled this path almost to the end. The Promised Land, to which he brought his people, is only a shadow of what is to come (Heb. 10:1), toward which his final path now lies...
But our path leads there too, through the same trials and bitterness. Do we understand where we are going and what we are living for? Are we building a kingdom we will never enter? The question of the meaning of life has led many people to faith. Is there still room in our life for this question?
