Read: Ex. 4-6
When Moses was overwhelmed with the task the Lord was giving him, God gave him a lesson on perspective. He asked him what he had in his hand. When he threw it to the ground it became a serpent, which made him afraid. But when he overcame his fear and picked it up it became his greatest power. God is only asking us to use the gifts he has given us - our rod. When we get discouraged and let our faith fall to the ground then it will become our greatest fear. But when we apprehend our fear by faith it becomes our greatest weapon against the enemy.
Next God showed him that it wasn’t his own hand that was so clean but the power of God that was going to do this. Our state without God is a state of leprosy. We are of unclean flesh. But when God saves us by the blood of Jesus we are clean. Moses was not being asked to do this on his own strength or merit - it was going to be a super-natural move of God. He was just the vessel. The same is true of us and anything God asks us to do. It won’t be because we are so gifted but because He is so gifted and chooses to use us.
The greater the assignment God calls you to… the greater the commitment He will require. God had commanded Abraham in Genesis 17:12-14 to circumcise every man child in his generations when the child was eight days old. If they didn’t that person must be cut off from his people because he had broken God’s covenant. Moses had not circumcised one of his sons so God was going to kill Moses because of it. Zipporah, who apparently had been the cause of not wanting to circumcise her baby, realizes she has to obey the Lord to save her husband. So she takes a rock and circumcises him. She seems a little upset at Moses and calls him a bloody husband. I have to admit, this makes me laugh. The people in the Bible are so much like us.
It is encouraging to see that things didn’t just open up for Moses because God had told him to do something. The people loved Moses till it cost them something. Then they hated him. The Pharaoh thought he was crazy to ask him to let his whole work force take off work for three days to go sacrifice to a god he had never heard of. Needless to say, Moses was discouraged. God didn’t want Moses to be a superstar. He wanted to be the deliverer so the people could know Him. He had appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and now he wanted to reveal himself to a whole nation and be a father to them.
Note: Both Levi and Kohath lived to be an hundred thirty three years which means that their priesthood was to be perfectly conformed to the image of the heavenly priesthood.
Lord, help us to see that just because things don’t go smoothly in the things we feel called to do, it doesn’t mean we aren’t called to do them. You are working a much deeper work in us and those around us in a way where You will be glorified.
No comments:
Post a Comment