Numbers 27:22,23

The conduct of Moses, in so cheerfully obeying the LORD, is ever to be admired and applauded; and we should desire grace to imitate it. Moses had his relations; and naturally, no doubt, had it pleased the LORD, he might have been glad to have seen one of them taken for his successor. But grace enabled him to triumph over nature; and to prefer GOD'S honour and glory to every worldly private interest. Reader! may the LORD give us grace to do so upon all the lesser occasions with which we may be exercised through life; and to say with those of old, that we prefer the interests of Jerusalem above our chief joy. Psalms 137:6.