Think about how you approach Jesus. The Israelites wanted to make Jesus their king by force (v. 15). So they did want Jesus, but they wanted him to be their puppet. They would follow Jesus as their king as long as he did what they wanted, as long as he overthrew Rome.

That is not Christianity. The Jesus of the Bible is no man’s puppet, but how often we come to him telling him what we want him to do. We bargain with him. We claim to follow him as long as he doesn’t say or do something we dislike. We want the kingdom without the King. We want the liberty without the liberator. We want all of the blessings Jesus can secure for us without actually having to obey and follow him.

If we want Jesus to fix all of our problems but we don’t want to have to follow Jesus, all we want is a puppet king. We want another Moses—someone to get us out of trouble and make our lives a little more comfortable. Jesus is so much more, so much greater.

The only way to come to Jesus is to lay down your expectations, put aside your requirements, let go of the strings, and follow him. When you do, you will find that not only is Jesus greater than Moses, but Jesus is far greater than anything you can ever imagine.