I wonder if any of you are anything like me? I have a hunger to serve the Lord! I am passionate about the ministry opportunities that He has allowed me to partake in, I am thrilled whenever I am asked to give my testimony, I rejoice whenever I see anyone grow closer to Christ through something I may have written or said. However, there are times when I get so caught up in the "moment", that I forget that I am a part of something that is way bigger than me. I forget that what I am participating in, in not just for my benefit or growth, but also for others around me. I forget that what I am doing, God is already in control of and allowing me to participate in for His glory and honor. Are you like me?
"Then He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God." Exodus 3:6.
One of the things in my walk with our Lord that I am always learning is that He always speaks to us in the context of what He has done in the lives of those who have gone before us. Look at it this way: When God came to Moses, He did not give Moses an assignment that was independent of what He had done through those who had gone on before Moses. Through previous years, God had made promises to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Now God was going to involve Moses in His ongoing activity to fulfill the promises He had made to Moses' forefathers.
We need to understand that the same God that had led Moses, worked through Elijah, directed the apostle Paul, who guided every man, woman, or child of God through all these centuries, is the same God that approaches us to be involved in His work. I wonder if we understand the significance of that? I, too, have often missed the fact that we are all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Many of us tend to think of only the present. We all want immediate results, and we all lack a sense of eternity. Some of us can start to act, and often do act like God has not been working at all where we are before He approached us. And, we all expect that anything God does through us will be completed while we can see the results. We become impatient if God intends to complete what He began in us through another person or even another generation. Sometimes that impatience can turn to envy or bitterness, all because we assume that what we are doing was meant only for us and not for anything else. Can we imagine if any of the men and women God used through time started to believe this way? Abraham never lived to see the results of the work God started through him, and that work continues even today!
As we look more into the life of Moses, we will learn that Moses came to understand that his involvement in God's work was in the context of hundreds of years of divine activity. When Moses came face to face with the same God who had guided his forefathers, he was deeply humbled. How about us? Are we humbled to know that we work for the same God who spoke with Moses face to face? We cannot forget that any and all activity God has called us to participate in already has hundreds of years of divine activity. We are only continuing on in the work God started centuries ago. We are continuing on where Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses, David, Paul, Peter and others left off. Do you sense that your life is a part of God's eternal purposes?
May God Richly Bless You Today!! H Trent!
"Then He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God." Exodus 3:6.
One of the things in my walk with our Lord that I am always learning is that He always speaks to us in the context of what He has done in the lives of those who have gone before us. Look at it this way: When God came to Moses, He did not give Moses an assignment that was independent of what He had done through those who had gone on before Moses. Through previous years, God had made promises to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Now God was going to involve Moses in His ongoing activity to fulfill the promises He had made to Moses' forefathers.
We need to understand that the same God that had led Moses, worked through Elijah, directed the apostle Paul, who guided every man, woman, or child of God through all these centuries, is the same God that approaches us to be involved in His work. I wonder if we understand the significance of that? I, too, have often missed the fact that we are all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Many of us tend to think of only the present. We all want immediate results, and we all lack a sense of eternity. Some of us can start to act, and often do act like God has not been working at all where we are before He approached us. And, we all expect that anything God does through us will be completed while we can see the results. We become impatient if God intends to complete what He began in us through another person or even another generation. Sometimes that impatience can turn to envy or bitterness, all because we assume that what we are doing was meant only for us and not for anything else. Can we imagine if any of the men and women God used through time started to believe this way? Abraham never lived to see the results of the work God started through him, and that work continues even today!
As we look more into the life of Moses, we will learn that Moses came to understand that his involvement in God's work was in the context of hundreds of years of divine activity. When Moses came face to face with the same God who had guided his forefathers, he was deeply humbled. How about us? Are we humbled to know that we work for the same God who spoke with Moses face to face? We cannot forget that any and all activity God has called us to participate in already has hundreds of years of divine activity. We are only continuing on in the work God started centuries ago. We are continuing on where Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses, David, Paul, Peter and others left off. Do you sense that your life is a part of God's eternal purposes?
May God Richly Bless You Today!! H Trent!
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