What is a man of God? Moses is the first servant of God who bore this honored title, and it is given to him four times (Deut. 33:1; 1 Chron. 23:14; Ezra 3:2). His whole course was one of singular devotedness to the Lord. Gladly he surrendered the honors and comforts of the Egyptian palace that he might identify himself with God's downtrodden people, willingly he carried the burden of them during the forty years of “the provocation”, and with marvelous patience he bore their murmuring and ingratitude. What is still greater, he pleaded for them with God, even going so far as to pray that he might be blotted out of God's book if thereby their sin might be pardoned. His jealousy for God's holy name in connection with His people was truly marvelous. His familiar pleadings with God on their behalf, as recorded in Exodus 32:31-33, is almost matchless. Not that Moses was perfect—only One was ever that—but his disinterestedness and devotion mark him out as one of the most conspicuous characters in Bible history. In him we get some idea of what is involved in the title—“the man of God.”