Daily Manna, Year Two · Day 361 · December 27
Aaron and Hur
“But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.”
Your arms came down some time in the spring, and nobody noticed, because you kept turning up and doing the things. That is the ordinary way it happens.
Take the mechanics of this verse before the moral of it. Amalek attacked at Rephidim. Joshua fought in the valley, Moses stood on the hill with the rod of God in his hand, and while his hand was up Israel prevailed. Then the plain sentence: But Moses' hands were heavy. What happened next was practical and slightly undignified. They took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon. They sat him down. Then two men took an arm each, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side, and stood there while the light went.
Nobody prayed the tiredness away. There is no rebuke in the passage for having heavy arms, and no suggestion that a better man would have managed alone. Note also who this happens to. Moses is the one holding everybody else up, and he finishes the day sitting on a rock with his arms held by other people, in full view of the army below. Afterwards he builds an altar and names it Jehovahnissi.
Read the last clause twice before you go: and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. His hands. The record puts the steadiness in his column, and two men did it, and the text sees no contradiction. Whatever gets held up in you this month by somebody standing on either side of you will be written down as yours. And the arrangement has an end in it: until the going down of the sun, and no longer than the battle lasts.
Daily Manna runs on a two-year cycle. The year one reading for day 361 is Spirit of Adoption (Romans 8:15).