Today, God is asking you, “What is that in your hand?” Then He is waiting for your answer. Whatever is in your hand, whatever skill, profession, ability, facility, capacity, or opportunity you may have, it is God who gave it to you. Moses had a staff in his hand. What do you have in yours? The only wrong and unacceptable answer is, “Nothing!”
Next, God is going to say to you “Give it to me, and let me use it for My honour and glory!” This was the experience of Moses, and a part of that story is in Exodus 4:1-12. God selected him before he was born. God orchestrated Moses’ protection from Pharaoh who had decreed that all Hebrew male children should be murdered in order to control the exploding Hebrew population. God ordained that Pharaoh’s daughter would find him floating in the river, and adopt him as her own son. God ordained that Moses’ mother would be paid by the Egyptian Government to nurse Moses. God ordained that Moses would spend forty years being taught in the wilderness, after his first forty years being taught in the Egyptian palace. And all this time God was preparing and equipping Moses for the mission of a life-time – the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt.
God has a mission for you and one for me, and He has been preparing us for that mission. Even when we do not know what the mission is, we ought to submit ourselves to the training and conditioning hand of God. We ought to treat every experience, every trial, every hardship, every success, and every victory as part of God’s training for our next great assignment from Him. Under His guidance and with His equipping, we will accomplish the purpose of God in our lives. But first, we have to yield ourselves to Him and realise that “it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil His good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13)
Selfish pride and arrogance is unacceptable in our relationship with God. But did you know that false humility and self-deprecation in the face of God’s endorsement is also unacceptable? If not, why then do we read in verse 14, “…Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses…”
In an attempt to convince Moses that He was empowering him for the mission, God showed Moses the following:
1. The miracle of the burning bush
2. The miracle of the staff turned snake turned staff
3. The miracle of the healthy hand turned leprous turned healthy hand
4. Having performed three miracles, God promised a fourth – the miracle of the Nile’s water becoming blood.
Moses’ response to these four evidences of God’s presence, protection and miraculous empowerment was not to bow down and worship God. Instead he began to plead his own inadequacy. How did God respond? By telling Moses that it was God who made his mouth and He could just as easily make him speak fluently and effectively.
How did Moses respond? He essentially told God that He did not know what He was saying and that God had made a mistake in sending him to deliver the Israelites. He actually told God to send someone else. That’s when God got angry.Are you so humble, so modest and so aware of your inadequacies that you doubt that God can, and will effectively equip you to do the task to which He has commissioned you? To deny God’s ability to empower you to do what He has told you to do is not humility. It's absurdity.
God has a mission for you and one for me, and He has been preparing us for that mission. Even when we do not know what the mission is, we ought to submit ourselves to the training and conditioning hand of God. We ought to treat every experience, every trial, every hardship, every success, and every victory as part of God’s training for our next great assignment from Him. Under His guidance and with His equipping, we will accomplish the purpose of God in our lives. But first, we have to yield ourselves to Him and realise that “it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil His good purpose.” (Philippians 2:13)
Selfish pride and arrogance is unacceptable in our relationship with God. But did you know that false humility and self-deprecation in the face of God’s endorsement is also unacceptable? If not, why then do we read in verse 14, “…Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses…”
In an attempt to convince Moses that He was empowering him for the mission, God showed Moses the following:
1. The miracle of the burning bush
2. The miracle of the staff turned snake turned staff
3. The miracle of the healthy hand turned leprous turned healthy hand
4. Having performed three miracles, God promised a fourth – the miracle of the Nile’s water becoming blood.
Moses’ response to these four evidences of God’s presence, protection and miraculous empowerment was not to bow down and worship God. Instead he began to plead his own inadequacy. How did God respond? By telling Moses that it was God who made his mouth and He could just as easily make him speak fluently and effectively.
How did Moses respond? He essentially told God that He did not know what He was saying and that God had made a mistake in sending him to deliver the Israelites. He actually told God to send someone else. That’s when God got angry.Are you so humble, so modest and so aware of your inadequacies that you doubt that God can, and will effectively equip you to do the task to which He has commissioned you? To deny God’s ability to empower you to do what He has told you to do is not humility. It's absurdity.
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