PURPOSE
Today's reading:  Numbers 29-32

"Then the Lord said to Moses, Take vengeance on the Midianites for leading the Israelites into idolatry.  After that, you will die and join your ancestors."  Numbers 31:1-2 NLT

I'm thinking about the many purposes Moses had in his life.

The things he was called to do.  The times when God's power was displayed through him.  The miracles God allowed Him to witness.  The millions looking up to him for guidance and direction from God.

To think one of his purposes, though, was to rid his people of further temptation from the Midianites?   What a purpose!

To extinguish the lure of sin.

To put away the allure of what shouldn't be done.

To cut the cords used by the ungodly to bind our hearts to sin-filled things.

To exterminate the bait used to draw someone else away from God.

God asked Moses to wipe out the enemy, then die.

Would we, are we, satisfied in doing just that for the generations that follow us?

It starts in our own lives.

It starts today.