(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)I remember someone in a Bible study I was in once (can't remember which) saying how funny he found this verse. According to tradition, Moses wrote Genesis-Deuteronomy. That means he had to put down on parchment that he was the most humble man that lived, and it was still true. Since that Bible study, I always had a picture in my head of Moses pausing at this point in the "dictation," looking upwards, and saying "are you sure about that one, Lord? Really, me? No way. Seriously? Can we skip this sentence, because I'm already feeling silly just thinking about writing this."
I'm sure I've been guilty of the exact opposite from time to time. I'm a fairly quiet guy, try not to be too presumptuous or arrogant, and had most of my pride knocked out of me rather forcefully back in middle school. However, this is a claim that at any serious moment I could not even come close to labeling myself with. I'd like to think I'm closer to humility than pride or arrogance on the spectrum of such things, but nowhere near the most humble. I guess that's the goal to aspire to: faith like a child, and humility like Moses.
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