My Utmost For His Highest - Oct. 13th
. . . when Moses was grown . . . he went
out to his brethren and looked at their burdens
—Exodus 2:11
Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain
that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of
his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his
first strike for God and for what was right, God allowed Moses to be
driven into empty discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed
sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses
and said to him, ” ’. . . bring My people . . . out of Egypt.’ But Moses
said to God, ’Who am I that I should go . . . ?’ ” (Exodus
3:10-11). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one
to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God
first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the
person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness
with God.
We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses’ forty years in the wilderness. It’s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, “Who am I that I should go . . . ?” We must learn that God’s great stride is summed up in these words— “I AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you” (Exodus 3:14). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him— our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be “well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, “I know this is what God wants me to do.” But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.
John Courson Daily Devosionals - Oct. 10th
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11
Here, God says to His people, “You’ll be in Babylon for seventy years, but know that the thoughts I think of you are of peace, to bring you to a glorious end. I’m doing something special in you.” And indeed He was. When the Jews went into Babylon, they were idolatrous people. When they came out, never again did they worship idols. They were purged. They were healed. They were matured in those difficult days of the Babylonian captivity.
This verse is one of my favorites in all the Bible, for it speaks to me and you that even in the times things look bad, when the Babylonians are carrying you away, the Lord is using it for something glorious.
We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses’ forty years in the wilderness. It’s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, “Who am I that I should go . . . ?” We must learn that God’s great stride is summed up in these words— “I AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you” (Exodus 3:14). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him— our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be “well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, “I know this is what God wants me to do.” But we have not yet learned to get into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.
John Courson Daily Devosionals - Oct. 10th
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11
Here, God says to His people, “You’ll be in Babylon for seventy years, but know that the thoughts I think of you are of peace, to bring you to a glorious end. I’m doing something special in you.” And indeed He was. When the Jews went into Babylon, they were idolatrous people. When they came out, never again did they worship idols. They were purged. They were healed. They were matured in those difficult days of the Babylonian captivity.
This verse is one of my favorites in all the Bible, for it speaks to me and you that even in the times things look bad, when the Babylonians are carrying you away, the Lord is using it for something glorious.
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