3/12/2008 9:36 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Moses claims, “Someone else can do it better.
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Exodus 4:13-17
Message of the verses: “13 But he said, "Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will." 14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 “You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do. 16 “Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you and you will be as God to him. 17 “You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.’”
I just wonder how Moses felt whenever he had to write this portion of Scripture and other portions of Scripture whenever he sinned or when something very bad happened like when his nephews were killed by God for burning strange fire?
In all five of these excuses Moses gives to God he is telling God of his weaknesses, or weaknesses that he though he had. I want to quote my memory verses in this section as God has been speaking to my heart about this same issue: “9 And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
There are many different places in Scripture where God uses the weak things that a person has in order to bring honor and glory to Himself, for when God uses the weak things in a person that person is forced to recognize that it is God who is doing the work and not the person’s own strength doing the work.
Dr. Wiersbe writes that one of the worst things that can happen to a believer is to have God give in to one of the selfish prayer requests that a believer insists on getting from God. “When God in His anger gives us what we selfishly want, that gift rarely turns out to be a blessing. One of the most painful judgments God can send is to let His people have their own way.”
In regard to Moses’ weakness Dr. Wiersbe writes: “The lesson is plain: God
knows us better than we know ourselves, so we must trust Him and obey what He tells us to do. When we tell God our weaknesses, we aren’t sharing anything He doesn’t already know. The will of God will never lead you where the power of God can’t enable you, so walk by faith in His promises.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: My attitude has changed a couple of times about the possibility of getting this job in Hawaii, first I was willing to wait on the Lord and see if this was His will for me, and then as time went on I really got excited about the job and especially the location of the job and also the length of the job and wanted it no matter what, and now after doing today’s SD God has shown me that I need to wait on Him, and know that if God allows Tim to get this job and allows me to go on it then it will be for His reasons and if He closes the door on this job then that means that He will have something else in mind for me to do which will be better because it will be from Him.
My Steps of Faith for Today: God has showed me in the past through all He has led me through that I should continue to learn patience and contentment and somewhere along the way I have forgotten those lessons and need to brush up on those lessons so by faith I will trust the Lord, especially concerning this job.
Memory verses for the week: 2Cor. 12:9-10
9. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I would rather boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distress, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak then I am strong.
Review of older memory verses: Philippians 1:9-11
9. And this I pray, that your love may grow still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
10. so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;
11. having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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