What a scene!

Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord’s command. He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired and his vigour had not abated. The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.

(Deuteronomy 34:5-8)

I do love the scenes where God gets his hands dirty and, for me, this is one of those scenes. Although the text does not directly say it, the implication is that God buries Moses because in his moment of death Moses is alone with God! The scene of burial I picture are those that I saw years ago when the preparation and filling of the burial plot was done by hand. Can you picture the scene I do with the loving God shoveling the stone and dirt as he buries one who has striven to follow God each day! (Another scene that pictures God as one who works with his hands is when God kneels and molds humans from dirt in Genesis 2:7.)

Such a God-story speaks of God who so loves us that he handles a shovel. That, by itself, is a demonstration of God's unceasing love to me.

LORD God, praise you for such hand-working love!

How do you see the working hands of God in your own life?