The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Deuteronomy 1:1-8, “These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

2 It is an eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

3 And it came about in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them,

4 after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

5 Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,

6 “The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

7 ‘Turn and set your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

8 ‘See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.’

Life needs direction. The LORD had led His people from the wilderness all the way to Kadesh-barnea. Forty years had now passed, and it was time for Moses to reveal to the people what the LORD had revealed to him.

There’s a time and a place for everything. In many ways, Moses was like a parent instructing his children, Israel. Yet, it was the LORD Who instructed Moses, and through him, passed on to the people what the LORD had said. It’s the LORD who is always our Chief Instructor. What He shares with His leaders, He will eventually allow to be shared with us, His people.

All of this requires us to be patient and obedient. Trouble persists when we get hurried and out of line with what the LORD requires. His authority can be for us a parent, a pastor, or anyone who outranks us in authority in the LORD’s work. Our key responsibility commences with learning that we are not in authority and then submitting to the One who is.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom