Is Success Overcoming Adversity?
We often measure successes by the amount of adversity overcome. By that measure Moses should have been successful. He overcame four kinds of adversity in the pressure cooker of leadership. We may overcome adverse environment. Moses led a mass of people in the destitute desert. He had done so for thirty-eight years. The entire group lived like Bedouins in an uninhabited, hostile environment. Moses achieved in an impossible place. We may overcome adverse memories. The Hebrews returned to Kadesh, the place of their failure thirty-eight years before Numbers 13:26. At that place they refused to enter the land that God had given them. The huge rock at Kadesh was a landmark of lost life, a monument of failure. Yet Moses overcame the adversity of past failure. We may overcome adverse emotions. Miriam died at Kadesh. She was the sister of Moses and Aaron as well as the leading woman of the Hebrews. It was Miriam who had placed the baby Moses in the Nile and watched until he was claimed by the d
