40 Days with Moses 2025 Year of Exposure Day 24: The longer we serve Him, the sweeter He grows.

40 “The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; He is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will exalt Him.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

My maternal grandmother‘s name was Addie Mae. She married my grandfather when she was 15, giving birth to my mother at the ripe old age of 16. She came from a Methodist background, but as a teenager, received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

“Little Mama” (as I knew her) had a very powerful experience before she married my grandfather. She “went out” in the spirit and had a vision that lasted a few hours. In it she saw her future life. The even more intriguing part about this is that through the years she would meet people she had first seen in that vision! She loved the Lord and had faith in the power of prayer, particularly when those prayers came from her son-in-law, my father, Harry Mushegan.

Another of the incidents, numbered among a host of wonderful spiritual experiences she had in her life, was that she actually died and went to heaven.

My grandfather was praying over her, asking the Lord to put life back in her body, when suddenly she gasped a breath of life. Upon coming back into her body, she scolded my grandfather saying, “Why did you bring me back? It was so beautiful!” You see, she had—in those moments away from her body—seen sights she had never seen before.

In her latter years one of her favorite songs was, “The Longer I Serve Him” (Bill and Gloria Gaither). Here are the lyrics:

(Verse)

Since I started for the kingdom

Since my life he controls

Since I gave my life to Jesus, The longer I serve him the sweeter He grows.

(Chorus)

The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows

The more that I love Him

More love He bestows

Each day like heaven, my heart overflows

The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows

(Verse)

Every need He is supplying

Plenteous grace He bestows

Every day my way gets brighter

The longer I serve Him the sweeter He grows

A very touching fact about this song is that it was based on something Bill Gaither’s grandmother said just before she passed away.

Bill was talking to her about her life and her relationship with the Lord and asked her if it had all been worth it. Among her last words, was her answer: “The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.”

You see, for people like my grandmother and Bill’s grandmother, their relationship with the Lord had been a beautiful lifelong experience of growing in the grace of God.

“You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”

‭‭II Peter‬ ‭3:17-18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Indeed, over the course of coming to better know the Lord, our trust in Him becomes unwavering, as we more and more come to appreciate the fullness of His glory.

Today we find Moses, in his song to the Lord, talking about the fact that the Lord was not only his strength and his song, but had become his salvation. He saw firsthand the miracle power of God working on his behalf and recognized the “becoming” aspect of our relationship with God.

Notice, after making the statement about the Lord becoming his salvation, Moses says that the Lord is his God and the God of his father.

Think of it, as it should be with all of us, as great as this moment with the Lord had been, as great as the Lord had been in the days of his father, Moses’ relationship with the Lord was always getting richer, and, yes, sweeter.

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The longer we serve Him, the sweeter He grows.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!