The power will burn but you won’t
Yesterday I left you with Joseph reconciling with his family. The story goes that the whole clan moved from famine-stricken Canaan to Egypt at the invitation of Pharoah. Things were fine until that Pharoah died and maybe a few after him. Then came a Pharoah who said, “ What are these Israelites doing in our land?” His answer was to make them slaves. He then decided to kill their babies. One mother decided to hide her child in a basket on the river. Then one-day Pharoah’s daughter comes along and finds the baby and decides to adopt him, his name was Moses.
Moses grew up in the palace though a discontentment grew also within him as he saw the oppression of his people. He tried to do his bit and in the process, he murdered a Taskmaster. He then got scared and ran off to the wilderness. He got a job looking after sheep and spent most of his time thinking about what would ever happen to his people back in Egypt. Then one day as it happens he catches sight of a bush burning. He goes to it to put out the fire when he realises there is fire but the bush is not burning. A voice then instructs him to take off his shoes for the ground on which he is standing is holy. He enters into a dialogue with God ( who else speaks through a burning bush!) in which God tells him he will lead his people out of Egypt. He makes excuses saying he has a stammer. God has none of it and says, “Fine use your brother as the mouthpiece” Moses in fear and trembling reluctantly accepts the job and returns to Egypt.
Now why this story stands out is Moses was just like you and me, he didn’t have much confidence in himself ( if you are a fully confident person this story is probably not for you) yet God chose him to demonstrate his power. His confidence needed not to be in himself but in the one who sent him.
We then get ten chapters worth of plagues and negotiation until finally Pharoah lets ‘my people go’. Like all great stories, this chapter ends but another begins with the title, ‘So how do we get across this river?’
For now, the point of the story is to encourage you that no matter who you are or what you have done you could be used for greatness. Actually the less greatness you have of yourself the more you qualify. Forget the stammer the power that transmits through you can bring death to life and life to death.
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