Exodus 3:16 – 22 “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’ The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you. And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed. Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
God is giving Moses his marching orders and Moses is probably wondering if he did the right thing when he went to look at that burning bush! Now God is commanding Moses to first convince the elders of Israel and then take them with him to Pharaoh. While this sounds stressful enough, God is already warning Moses that Pharaoh is NOT going to listen to him and that this refusal will be necessary before the Israelites can leave Egypt. To Moses, this must have sounded like a losing proposition!
APPLICATION: Several years ago, we were sent on our first mission assignment. Several months before we were supposed to leave, I had the chance to discuss our proposed location with a former missionary who was highly knowledgeable about that particular project. From what this man told me, we were being sent into a very difficult situation, one that could fall apart with us in it. I went home and prayed about the problem all that night. By morning, I knew two things: I knew that we were being sent over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but I also knew that God had control of that barrel.
When we proceeded to our assignment, everything happened as I had feared. But God used that situation to move us into the country in which He had chosen for us to serve. Everything we learned during that first two year assignment later became highly useful, and nothing was wasted. To this day, God is still using the language we learned during that assignment and the contacts we made to accomplish His purposes in our lives.
Perhaps you can identify with Moses. You feel as if God is asking you to do the impossible and you wonder how you are going to survive! You really feel as if God is asking you to go over an enormous waterfall without any protection and you are afraid that you are going to drown in the process.
If God is really in your matter and if He is really calling you, then rest assured that He can provide for you and take care of you. Does this mean things are going to be easy? NOPE! But when you KNOW that you are in the center of God’s will for your life, you have that peace that goes beyond all understanding. And if you refuse God’s will for your life, you will be miserable and uncomfortable. Choose to follow God; He can take you to places you would never have dreamed of!
PRAYER: Father God, thank you for loving us so much that you have a perfect plan for our lives! Thank you that when you call us to do hard things, you are already there in our future, waiting for us. Help us to follow hard after you all the days of our lives. In the matchless Name of King Jesus. Amen.
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