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Moses - Lacking in ability, enabled by God

 

When Moses was three months old he was placed in an ark of bulrushes.  This event alone could make one think that Moses would never amount to anything or be effective in any way.  Moses went through different stages of his life at various ages, but although Moses was lacking in ability, he was enabled by God to do great things for God’s people!

Moses survived Pharaoh’s order to kill all the male babies.  His deliverance was a miracle of God.  Also, incredibly, he was raised in the house of Pharaoh’s daughter and became an heir to the throne of Egypt.  Moses was fed from the milk of Israel, but He was schooled in the way of the Egyptians.  I imagine every day that Moses’ mother was nursing him she would continually repeat what we know as Deuteronomy 6:4-5 which states, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”  My thoughts are supported by verse 6 and 7 of Deuteronomy chapter 6, which states, “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”  So with that in mind, I would say it is pretty obvious that she taught him the ways of the Hebrew people.

 In Acts 7:22-23 it says, “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.  And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the Hebrews.”   I would like to point out a few things in this scripture.  1. Moses was schooled in all the wisdom of Egypt.  2. He was mighty in words and deeds. 3. He was forty years old. 4. It entered his heart to visit his brethren, the Hebrews.  In this scripture you see that the prayers of the Hebrews for leadership are being answered.  God has heard their cry for deliverance, and was preparing them a leader to deliver them from bondage.  He invested forty years in Moses.  One day the call of God pierced the heart of Moses.  Moses decided to go out and get to know his brethren, the Hebrew people.  Now at the age of forty, Moses was mighty in words and in deeds.  He was obviously a capable man with plenty of confidence.                                 

When he was visiting the Hebrews, he had seen one of them being hit by an Egyptian.  He then did what he had been trained to do.  He took things into his own hands and killed the Egyptian.  He did exactly what a leader was supposed to do, according to the leadership pattern he had known in Pharaoh.  Moses was schooled in the Egyptian system, led by a man that ordered babies to be fed to the crocodiles.  So even though he had a calling from God, he had a very confused view of godly leadership.  Therefore, that proves that Moses lacked in ability.  Moses had his own way of leading the Hebrews out of Egypt.  However, God does things His way, not our way.   Then how did God enable him?  

There was a man who started a process back in the 1950’s that eventually turned Japan from a nation of ruin to a leading producer of world class products.  This man was a brilliant mathematician and his name was W. Edwards Deming.  Deming used the Greek word mentanoia a lot. To him, it meant to unlearn or give up the things that didn’t help and learn to do different things that would help.  I believe that God had to put Moses through mentanoia. Sure at forty he was ready to lead the people out of Egypt, but he only knew one style of leadership.  God would’ve never received any glory; the people would’ve praised Moses.  But by the time he was eighty, he had improved his people skills, through forty years of shepherding.  He had seen the fire of God through the burning bush and had heard the voice of God giving exact instructions about his calling.  At forty he was called, but at eighty he was sent.  God’s timing and God’s Will must always have importance over our own.

At eighty, Moses told God that he was unable to do it. He had learned a valuable lesson. Even though he was unable, that didn’t mean that God was unable! God was very able.  And when Moses told God he wasn’t able to speak very well, God sent him a voice through his brother Aaron to do his talking for him.  Sure at forty he was a man mighty in words and in deeds.  But at eighty his self confidence was shattered. He was now a very slow speaker.  This was probably the result of Satan attacking his mind.  He probably spent a lot of time second guessing himself throughout all those years in exile.  By the time he was eighty he made every excuse he could to keep from going back to Egypt and delivering God’s people from bondage. 

Moses survived Pharaoh’s order to kill all the male babies.  He was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.  God put Moses in the desert and turned him into a shepherd.  Once he was prepared to do it God’s way, God sent him back to Egypt.  This time, he had a staff in his hand that he had seen God use, and he had a message for Pharaoh.  “LET MY PEOPLE GO!” What Moses lacked in ability God made up for it, by enabling him to do His will.

 

Vince Stegall

Director of Endtime Youth Corps

Feautured Poem

Victory Over the Devil

 

It's not you, it's me; that causes this loss of sleep

I make mistakes and cry for your lost soul
But why? It's the enemy that's attacking my mind.

I fight, I pray and nothing seems to happen
All the while, I'm sinkin' deeper into action
Because Satan keeps feeding me all this faction


He tells me, "Try this, try that, it will really make u smile."
"You can still make it to Heaven, and temporarily be my child."
"You can still watch this, read that; believe me it's considered mild." 

 

Society tells me not to worry about my behavior

But the Word says lose now; gain later
And u will spend eternity with your Creator.

And I believe that and gain a temporary high...
That's when Satan reminds me of my past
And I flee from drawing nigh.

Come to think about it the Word was made flesh;

Experienced death on a cross so my past could be forgotten.

And still my life is a big mess

Sooner or later the slow will be fast

The first will be last.

And my God will be leading the mass.

 

Oh to be in that number! This is what I hunger.

It's not just about avoiding Hell.

It's about being with Him!

 

The loneliness can't keep me down

I rebuke this frown…in Jesus name.

VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL IS WHAT I CLAIM!

 

~ Vince Stegall

 

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