It is the mark of a mature man that his sense of responsibility takes precedence over his own feelings. It is a mark of godliness that he acknowledges God's care of all men, not only of himself. Moses was such a man. When God told him that he must go up Mt. Nebo, look over the land promised to Israel, and then die without entering into it because of his disobedience at Meribah, there is not a word of resentment of self-pity or self-justification from Moses.
Instead his concern was for the people he had been shepherding, that they might be brought home. The God to whom he addressed the prayer was the Most High over every nation (Deuteronomy 32:8). Moses saw things with a vision that encompassed far more than his own horizon.
Lord, deliver us from smallness and self-pity. "Make us masters of ourselves that we may be the servants of others." (Sir Alexander Patterson)
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