When you read your Bible, one of the methods to greater understanding is to ask, “Am I in this story? Can I relate to any of the characters? Is God speaking to me?”
I am preparing to speak to several groups this morning and sometimes, I feel like Moses must have felt when God asked him to go and speak to the Israelites. He replied, ‘Me? You’re asking me to go? Who am I to go? I’ m not good at speaking and I don’t know what to say.’
When Moses spoke to Pharaoh and asked him to let God’s people go, Pharaoh doubled the work on the Israelites. Again, God asked Moses to go back to Egypt and speak to Pharaoh. Moses said, ‘If the Israelites didn’t believe me, why should Pharaoh believe me? Nothing I said made any difference.’
How many times have you questioned your life and your work? If you are like me, it’s more than you’d like to admit. Thank goodness God didn’t give up on Moses and He won’t give up on me or you.
Strengthen me Lord this day to prepare Your words and not my own. May Your words be like the refreshing water in the wilderness and give hope and promise to Your people who have been brought to and are going through the disease of cancer. May those looking for a purposeful life be rewarded with the stirring of Your Spirit in their hearts. And, the nurses, Lord, may they never forget that You are with them and will lead them through the desert to an oasis of understanding. I pray every day that I can say the words to encourage them to never forget they are powerful and purposeful – a living part of Your infinite stream of compassion.
“The Lord said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and teach you what to say.” Exodus 4: 11-12