That experience, coupled with my quiet trip to the tombstones, suddenly began to make me feel a part of the scene that unfolded on Mount Pisgah, up there where Moses died. It grips you quietly, but down deep. I think it’s wrong to approach a section of Scripture as though you’re about to complete a lesson or, for that matter, a book. God’s Book is a book of life. And with the exception of the death of His Son, the Author of Scripture never lingers long over death. I can count on both hands, with fingers left over, the number of lengthy obituaries found in the Word of God. God’s people simply
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