Wednesday
Jan282009
Exodus - Moses
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 5:21 PM
God wants to use Moses as a person to do the work of God. He did not want Moses to think that the things he had were what God wanted to use to drive His work. It's easy to think that we need a certain skill or ability in order to serve, but this is not the case and God proves that with Moses. God used a bush to do his work to attract Moses over and it was called Holy Ground. God was there so the place was special as He called it holy ground, just a bush.
God then has a little exchange with Moses and we see that He is wrestling with Moses. When God wrestles with us it is because He wants to teach us something and reveal His heart to us. The same thing happens when Moses returns to Egypt and God sets on the plagues there. Often times the things that we value the most are the things that we depend on. Then God wrestles with us to show us that it is foolish to trust in those things and they can even let us down.
The first plague the that God turns the Nile into blood. The Nile is a great life source for the Egyptians as it provided so much being a source of water. God turned it into blood to show the Egyptians that the precious thing they depended on could fail. The second plague was the plague of the frogs. One of the Egyptian Gods at that time took the form of a frog. So many frogs came out of the Nile that the thing the Egyptians revered suddenly became a nusence. The interesting part about the frog plague is that even though they were causing such a problem Pharoah wants to get rid of them tomorrow.
Unfortunately I think that is the response of myself and many others when the problems comes. We want to fix them tomorrow rather then now. Tomorrow is just a metaphor and i think that the Pharoah could have equally said later. We want to hold on to the things that we clearly know are a problem and have them fixed later because we enjoy those things. Alcoholics, drug addicts, porn addicts, or even something thats not considered as bad like too much TV can be problems that God wants us to rectify, but we say tomorrow, later, or after this. After a period of time of excuses we do not even see the issue anymore. It's like when a ship is off one degree, after about 100 miles or so it's no where near where it was heading. There are a total of 10 plagues and we see that God takes Pharoah through all of them because God does not always work instantly.
God then has a little exchange with Moses and we see that He is wrestling with Moses. When God wrestles with us it is because He wants to teach us something and reveal His heart to us. The same thing happens when Moses returns to Egypt and God sets on the plagues there. Often times the things that we value the most are the things that we depend on. Then God wrestles with us to show us that it is foolish to trust in those things and they can even let us down.
The first plague the that God turns the Nile into blood. The Nile is a great life source for the Egyptians as it provided so much being a source of water. God turned it into blood to show the Egyptians that the precious thing they depended on could fail. The second plague was the plague of the frogs. One of the Egyptian Gods at that time took the form of a frog. So many frogs came out of the Nile that the thing the Egyptians revered suddenly became a nusence. The interesting part about the frog plague is that even though they were causing such a problem Pharoah wants to get rid of them tomorrow.
Unfortunately I think that is the response of myself and many others when the problems comes. We want to fix them tomorrow rather then now. Tomorrow is just a metaphor and i think that the Pharoah could have equally said later. We want to hold on to the things that we clearly know are a problem and have them fixed later because we enjoy those things. Alcoholics, drug addicts, porn addicts, or even something thats not considered as bad like too much TV can be problems that God wants us to rectify, but we say tomorrow, later, or after this. After a period of time of excuses we do not even see the issue anymore. It's like when a ship is off one degree, after about 100 miles or so it's no where near where it was heading. There are a total of 10 plagues and we see that God takes Pharoah through all of them because God does not always work instantly.
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