At the end of Deuteronomy 3, Moses cries out for God to hear him and relent concerning his judgment which would leave Moses out of the Promised Land, though it was Moses who “put up” with them (humanly speaking) through 40 years of grumbling and faltering.
God told Moses, “No.” What are we to make of this harsh judgment? There are many things to say about the justice and goodness of God in relation to the manner in which He dealt with Moses, but it is sufficient for today to contemplate the manner in which God’s judgments are first judgments designed to accomplish His will. His will is always good toward His people.
In the Kingdom (and here comes a cheesy acrostic analogy), the “I” comes second. The “K” for the king comes first, and this with good reason. If we genuinely trust that the King is benevolent, we will understand that His will must come first, before ours. Of course Moses wanted to enter the Promised Land, but he could understand the kingdom only from his personal perspective. God understood the kingdom from an eternal perspective and knew, for many reasons, that Moses should not enter. Like Moses, we must learn not merely to “submit” to God’s will, but to trust God Himself and know that His will is good for us, His people.
Gregory C. Cochran 
Do you, like, think that maybe the “k” was put before the “i”, like, intentionally or something? Like, maybe the people making up the alphabet and phoenetics and stuff were, like, guided to put it that way so that kingdom would be spelled the way it is? Cause that’s like, a really cool observation and stuff. Just kidding man. Good post.
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Actually, Daniel, if you’ll go back through the alphabet, you will realize that “i” comes before “k” in the English alphabet. Of course, it need not be that way absolutely, as the alphabet itself is obviously a phenomenological projection of a communicative apprehension of a temporal, concrete utterance, establishing no substantial claim to an absolute ontological verity. Good question, though–no kidding.
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whoa, man. you’re like, freakin me out. Is that what school does to people? Count me out.
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