GOD’S AUTHORITY AND CONVICTION

Psalms 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

God asked Moses and Aaron to perform an impossible task. God, in his wisdom, knew the nature of mankind and their habit of persecuting those who come in His authority. God’s leaders are always subject the harsh criticism from those they try to guide.

Moses had the special link with God. This link was that of a mediator between God and man, the foreshadowing of Jesus’ role. Aaron, Moses’ brother was the High priest. He executed the perpetual atonement sacrifices. Through the levitical offerings, Aaron was like a foreshadow of the Holy Sprit, constantly reminding and convicting people of their sins (John 16:8). Moses and Aaron were the physical representation of authority and conviction. These are very needed elements for a well-balanced godly life, but sad to say, we vehemently naturally, consciously and sub-consciously, fight against God’s authority and conviction in our lives.

We naturally chaff against God’s authoritative control over us. We subconsciously justify ourselves against conviction. Our natural rebellion usually finds no other way to manifest itself than to lash out in critical attacks against those vessels who represent authority and conviction. Our wounded pride blinds us to the hard work and sacrifice of those who care for us and tries to find fault with them. Our deflated ego numbs us to our own faults, and we look at the vessel of God’s conviction with bloody envy.

Jesus ‘took the flak’ of our rebelliousness once and for all. It is a good thing that now the only people we can take our rebellion to are: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Human pastors can relieve themselves of this ungrateful task by leading the flock to the Word who will do its work in people’s lives through the Holy Spirit.

May God help us not to become one of those who in the time of God’s wrath on the earth will lift their fist and blame God for the problems they brought upon themselves (Revelations 6:9). Let us voluntarily yield our hearts to God’s gentle leading conviction, and humbly receive the light that exposes us to ourselves, so day by day, we can grow into mature spirituality

Proverbs 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.