If you ever have doubted about God’s power, you have to check these series of events that happened so back to back that even the hardest person to be convince got touched and believed! Do you happen to have a few of those “unbelievers”? Do not feel bad; we all do. But check how God chose to manifest Himself to prove His omnipotence.
“Then Moses answered and
said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they
say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’” 2 So the Lord said to him, “What is that in
your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground,
and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his
hand), 5 “that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6 Furthermore the Lord said to him, “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his
hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous,
like snow. 7 And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his
hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was
restored like hisother flesh. 8 “Then it will be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the message
of the first sign, that they may believe the message of the latter sign. 9 And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or
listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river[a] and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become blood on the
dry land.”
10 Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not
eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of
speech and slow of tongue.” 11 So the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the
deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you
what you shall say.”
13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may
send.” 14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses…”
It all started as Moses got told
by God that He had a powerful message to tell Pharaoh and that HE had chosen
him to be the carrier of that message.[1]
Moses wasn’t too excited about for we
have to remember that Moses fearing for his life had fled from Pharaoh’s side;
this, after trying to avenge his people’s mistreatment, he killed an Egyptian
leader.[2] But now, that GOD Himself was sending him
back, Moses decided to avoid this assignment at all cost.
Have you ever tried to avoid an
assignment at all cost? Sometimes we do, and the sad part is that as we do, usually
it takes us to get in deeper waters, that probably if we would have accepted
the assignment right away, time consuming consequences could have been avoided.
The Excuses & the “Proofs” (Miraculous
signs)
1)
What am I going to say when they asked me
about who sent me?
2)
What if they won’t believe me? Or listen to
me?
3)
“But suppose they will not believe me…”
Then The Lord, decided to proved
Himself to Moses, not one, not twice, not even three but five times; but young
Moses, still try to excuse himself, with…
4)
“O my Lord, I am not eloquent….”
5)
“… but I am slow of speech and slow of
tongue.”
Did you realize that the times Moses tried to
excuse off of this assignment, and the times The Lord proved Himself to Moses is
the same? The Lord proved Himself five times:
1.
“Cast it (the rod) on the ground.” So he
cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent
2.
“Reach out your hand and take it by the
tail”… and it became a rod in his hand)
3.
“Now put your hand in your bosom.”….and when
he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous
4.
“Put your hand in your bosom again.” …. and
behold, it was restored like his other flesh.
5.
…You shall take water from the river and
pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become
blood on the dry land.”
In spite of all of Moses attempts
to get away from the assignment, and even though The Lord got angry[3]
at him, God was merciful enough to still send him. HE is a good, good Father!!!
Today I want you to remember how
good of a Father our Lord is. I want to
encourage you to trust God; and NOT to lean on your own understanding because
our mind is limited, and sometimes we really can try “to cross the bridge long
before we get to it”. This will bring an
extra measure of concerns, worries, and burdens that if we would have trusted
God from the beginning forgetting the “what if’s” and/or the outcome of what
God wanted it, we would have avoided the added amount of pains. In all your
ways acknowledge GOD and HE WILL direct your path; remember that HE can see the
whole nine yards, and even more, HIS vision is limitless ours is not.
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