DCLM Higher Everyday 15 December 2025 — Moses’s Selfless Mediation
DCLM Higher Everyday 15 December 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Moses’s Selfless Mediation
Topic: Moses’s Selfless Mediation
Text: Exodus 32:9-16
9And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
11And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
12Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Key Verse: “Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people” (Exodus 32:12).
Message
Israel’s journey through the wilderness after their miraculous deliverance from Egyptian bondage was characterized by inconsistencies, murmurings and the threat to return to Egypt. After crossing the Red Sea, they sang and praised God, yet their hearts never left Egypt. Little wonder then that in the absence of Moses, they demanded molten images as their gods and decided to return to Egypt. They cared not about God’s commandments and had no feeling for the fate of Moses; they were indeed fed up with the divine-human partnership. Their terrible backsliding displeased God, who decided to wipe them out and start a nation with Moses.
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Moses, however, would not have that. He prayed and interceded to avert the judgment of God upon the people. He reminded God of his covenant with their forebears and the consequence of the action on the Lord’s reputation among the heathen nations. Moses’ example is worth emulating. Our nation, communities and churches need selfless mediators and intercessors. Our prayer meetings as youths should centre more on matters of eternal value than on temporal things.
Quote: They cared not about God’s commandments
Challenge: Be a selfless intercessor like Moses.
Prayer for today: Lord, give me the grace to pray for others.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
