We are judges or liberators?

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"To this Moses, whom they had rejected, saying," Who made you ruler and judge, who sent him to God as ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush "(Acts 7:35).

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As we know, Moses failed in his first attempt to liberate the people of Israel. The cause of his failure clearly shows us that: he rose as ruler and judge of his brothers, meanwhile God wanted to send him (as he sent him later) as ruler and deliverer.

There is a very big difference between being a judge and being a liberator. In Moses that difference was very marked. When he came to defend the Israelite from the hands of the Egyptian, he killed the Egyptian; Then, when he wanted to make peace between the two Israelites who were fighting, he "thought that his brothers understood that God would give them freedom by his hand". His attitude was that of the prince who looks out from the others, from the one who thinks he is something in his own eyes, not the liberator who wants to relieve his burdens.

It is possible to have a wrong attitude when we relate to our brothers. Undoubtedly, it is also possible to have the attitude of judge, although God has not called us to judge. We make violence to their consciences, we take control of their lives, we decide for them, we put heavy burdens on their shoulders. But we have to know that God never entrusted us with that mission.

The desire of God is to remove the burdens, to free his people from the menacing finger, to console the afflicted, to break the yokes of impiety. Moses would have to take forty years to understand this. He was not put to assent to the people of God, but to serve Him in love. He would have to be emptied of all the greatness in which he was created and the one that aspired of his vain education, of his many triumphs. He would have to learn in the desert, the job of shepherd of sheep, as he had to worry about the misguided one, wipe the wounded sheep, and lead her to the best pastures.

At present there are many judges and few liberators. The menacing finger of many bends implacably over the heads of God's beloved to demand gifts, to threaten them with the pains of hell if they are not faithful to them, if they do not respond to their particular expectations, if they do not please their desires for greatness. There are many judges who want to make a name; create religious empires, at the expense of the simple children of God; and then he will have to exacerbate them, frightening them, and using them for their selfish ends.

The Lord Jesus said: "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Being served, admired, revered and followed is not the goal of God's servants; but serve all, so that all receive from Christ the portion they need. To be a channel through which the love of Christ, the grace of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit can express and satisfy all their needs, especially that of freedom.

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