Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

Here, though, is a man who does far more. Moses does not merely feel sorry for despised Israel, but he actually goes down to them, adds himself to their society, and lives with them. You would be surprised if some famous person in Washington, D.C. or London were to give up house, fortune, and position in society and go live on a small income on some crowded street in the inner city for the sake of doing good. This would convey a very faint and feeble notion of the kind of thing that Moses did. He saw a despised people, and he chose their company in preference to that of the noblest in the land. He became one with them – their fellow, their companion in tribulation, their ally, their associate, and their friend.