Deuteronomy 34:1-12 / Matthew 18:15-20
No one likes to be left behind by others. It is a bitter depressing feeling.
More so when that person has been doing all the thankless work of getting the others together and getting them to move along.
For Moses, he had led the people in the desert for 40 years and he had to bear the brunt of their complaining and their demands.
And now, he had finally brought the people in sight of the land that God had promised them.
But as the Lord told him: I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross into it.
We may have felt sorry for Moses, that despite the hardships that he went through, he could only see the Promised Land but could not step into it.
Moses may have felt that he was left behind.
But his true reward was in the Lord God. To be buried by the Lord God is to say that the Lord God has gathered Moses to go to his eternal reward.
The life and death of Moses tells us God does not forget those who faithfully carried out His will.
So, like Moses, let us not look at earthly rewards. And may the Lord our God be our eternal reward.