Needs But Little

IT does not take a great deal of salt to flavor and to preserve, usually only a pinch. So, too, a few believers, yes, one believer, has more power with God than a world full of diplomats and statesmen. This truly gives us a thrill. Sometimes we feel a bit neglected and lonely in this world when we realize how the world gives us so little recognition; but after all, we are exceedingly important by the grace of God. We are so important in fact, that even the devil cannot do what he wants to do in this old world because of our presence here below. Yes, indeed, the Lord says of us, we are “the salt of the earth.”

The Bible abounds with examples of the power of intercession of believers. Of course, Abraham is the great example here, but we remember also Moses who was able to hold back the hand of God by his intercession in behalf of Israel. After Israel’s great sin of making the golden calf we hear God saying:

“Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you” (Exodus 32:10).

“Let Me alone,” says the Almighty to a puny man like Moses, “Let Me alone.” It is as though God were saying: “You are hindering Me and preventing Me from sending judgment upon this wicked, backslidden nation.” What a tremendous testimony that one man, Moses, interceding for Israel could prevail with God; for Moses does cry out, “Oh, spare them for Thy mercy’s sake,” and in Psalm 106:23 we read this:

Therefore he said he [God] would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

To Be Continued

Adapted and modified excerpts from Studies in the Life of Abraham by M. R. De Haan (1891-1964)
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