Jordan- Mount Nebo

Wilderness where the Israelites walked around for 40 years

We started our tour from Jordan and the first place we visited was Mount Nebo. This was the place where Moses stood and saw the promised land which is in Deuteronomy 34:1-3,"Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There, the Lord showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar." Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

                Memorial of Moses

Till today Moses body has yet to be discovered as it says in Deuteronomy 34:5-6, "And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is." There has been so many attempts to find his body till today but no one has yet to find his body. There is a memorial built on Mount Nebo to honor Moses. 

This proves that our God honors his word as in Proverbs 30:5, it says that “Every word of God is flawless” and in Psalm 33:4, “For the word of the Lord is right and true and he is faithful in all he does.” Sometimes we as humans think that we can outsmart God but we fail to realize that he is our creator and it is not the other way round.

A learning lesson for me that I learnt standing there where Moses stood overseeing the promise land, was that we need to learn from Moses about how his anger and disobedience cost him his journey into the promised land. Sometimes, we refuse to obey what God wants us to do and we end up disobeying him. Some of us may argue that Moses deserved to enter the promised land after all that he has done, but we fail to see the fact that it is not about the favors or services that we do for God, but rather our obedience and submission with humility to the tasks that he has put out for us. 

   Where Moses Stood overseeing the Promised Land