Be Someone's Aaron

The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform.

Exodus 4:27-28

God told Aaron to go meet Moses in the desert and where should they happen to meet but at the very mountain of God where God had recently appeared to Moses in a burning bush. And there Moses told Aaron what he had presumably told no one else. Scripture doesn’t record that Moses told his wife or sons or his father-in-law or anyone else why he was heading back to Egypt. But Scripture does tell us that now he told Aaron. He told Aaron that God had spoken to him out of a burning bush on this mountain, and he told Aaron that God had heard the cries of His people in Egypt, that He had seen their affliction and that He himself was coming down to rescue Israel from the hand of the Egyptians. God was sending Moses and Aaron to tell Pharaoh to let His people go.

Moses told all of this to Aaron, and from that time on, with a few notable exceptions, Moses and Aaron were one. They were a team, each one supporting the other and helping out where the other was weak. As they walked into Egypt and told the elders of the Israelites what God had planned, they were one. When they stood before Pharaoh and delivered God’s message to him, they were one. As they unleashed God’s plagues on Egypt, they were one. Together they bore the weight of leading probably 2 million people out of Egypt and through the dessert, providing food and water for them. These people grumbled against them and repeatedly threatened to rebel and return to Egypt; and through all of this, for nearly forty years (Numbers 33:38), they were one. Aaron was always by Moses’ side.

Be someone’s Aaron. We weren’t meant to do life or ministry alone. We need someone to be with us, to help us, to encourage us when we are discouraged, to correct us when we are wrong, to intercede for us and pray for us, to work alongside us. We find this principle all throughout Scripture. Jesus sent the Disciples out by twos. Paul didn’t go on his missionary journeys alone. He took Barnabas, or Silas, or Timothy with him. Even after Aaron died, Moses had Joshua.

So we all need at least one person in our life who will walk with us as we follow Jesus. We need someone with whom we can share the callings God has placed on our hearts. Be that for someone. Find someone that you can help accomplish what God has called them to do. Sunday School teachers need an Aaron. Deacons need an Aaron. College and high school students need an Aaron. Mothers and fathers need an Aaron. Be someone’s Aaron!