Tuesday 2 Oct 2012

Tuesday Reading: Exodus 4:10-14

Key Verse: Exodus 4:10
10  And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Devotion:
Doubting God seems to be a very human thing to do and there is evidence of it in just about every generation in our bibles; man just does not seem to get it! When God told Moses that he must go forward to be the leader that would bring the people out of Egypt his first thoughts were about his own inadequacies and how he would not be able to cope with what God was asking him to do. Time and time again we see the evidence that when God asks us to do something it is because He actually does know that we can do it! Why then the doubt?

God is our Creator God, the one who brought everything into being through His own power and that does include us as well. He knows what we are capable of and He knows what we are too scared to go out and do; but that does not mean that He is going to not get us involved just because we have our own doubts.

When we think that we are falling short of what God is asking or if we think that we do not have the wherewithal to do what God asks then just maybe we do not trust Him fully. When God said that we should fully rely on Him it was not a challenge but a command that we must rely on Him and on Him alone. He will give us what we do need to accomplish what He is asking; whether that is getting someone else to stand by our side or getting us to understand we can do things is what will differ for each of us. For Moses it was giving him someone that could stand up and talk so that he would not have to stammer. For Gideon it was allowing things to happen so that he would understand how powerful God actually is.

God is not going to be averse to allowing us to go through things so that we are built up and more ready than before either. In other words we may well go through trials to build up our strength and resolve so that we are ready to face what is ahead for us. For those people around us who do not know God and do not understand His ways, this may well look like us trusting in a God who allows bad things to happen to us. What we should always be doing is understanding that God is constantly working in our lives and we need to be ready for whatever He has got planned for us next…

Points to Ponder:
What do people have to do for you to trust them?

What will it take for you to trust God?