MOSES FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD.

WHEN LIFE COMES TO AN END, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE KNOWN? WHAT WORDS DO YOU WANT TO USE TO DESCRIBE YOUR LIFE? WHAT LEGACY DO YOU WANT TO LEAVE TO YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN?
The answer to those questions gives a succinct definition of who you are and depends upon what things are important to you.
Moses is described in many ways in the Scripture and he is called a "man of God." The greatest prophet that arose in Israel as a servant of the Lord. But one of the most interesting descriptions of Moses is that of a "friend of God." The Scripture says,"The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend." (Exodus 33:11). A friend of God is one who listens and obeys the Voice of God. Moses did not do all the talking, rather, he spent much time listening to God's Voice.
Very few people comes to God with a heart to get to know God better. The victorious man or woman of God is the one who is a friend of God, the one who has learned to listen, to communicate on an intimate level with God.
How could Moses fulfill his responsibilities as leader and responsible for nearly 3 million people, which he had to feed, clothe, house, and transport them, and simultaneously have enough time to be "a friend of God?"
Moses had a tent pitched outside the camp (living area of the multitudes of people). He went there and meet God. It was a place secluded enough to afford his intimate conversation with the One he loved. A friend of God will find a place and a time where he gets alone and listens to the heart of God. And God can trust him/her with deep secrets that comes from His Heart.
Jesus said to the 11 disciples in John15 (after Judas Iscariot left them), "You are my friends, if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead I have called you friends, for everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you." (15: 14-15) The implication is, that being called "friend" is an upgrade from being "servant."
Moses said before he died: "The Lord came from Mount Sinai; He rose like the sun over Edom and shone on His People from Mount Paran. Ten thousand angels were with Him, a Flaming Fire at His Right Hand. The Lord loves His People and protects those who belong to Him. So we bow at His feet and Obey His Commands. People of Israel, no god is like Your God, riding in splendor across the sky, riding through the clouds to come to your aid. " (Deuteronomy 33)
Moses went up from the Plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Mount Pisgah East of Jericho, and there the Lord showed him the whole Land: the territory of Gilead as far North as the Town of Dan; the entire territory of Naphtali; the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh; the territory of Judah as far West as the Mediterranean Sea; the Southern part of Judah; and the Plain that reaches from Zoar to Jericho, the City of the Palm Trees. Then the Lord said to Moses, "This is the Land that I Promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob I would give to their descendants. I have let you see it, but I will not let you go there." So Moses died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said he would. The Lord buried him in a Valley in Moab, opposite the Town of Beth'Peor, but to this day no one knows the exact place of his burial. Moses was 120 years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good. The People of Israel mourned for him for 30 days in the Plains of Moab.
No other Prophet has ever done miracles and wonders like those that the Lord sent Moses to perform against the king of Egypt, his officials, and the entire country. No other Prophet has been able to do the great and terrifying things that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. (Deuteronomy 34)