I will be with you

It's a promise God makes more than once, but even the strongest among us will sometimes doubt. In Exodus 2 Moses has a meeting with God, and God advises Moses of the plan to free the Israelites from Egyptian bondage.  Moses is told he is to be the one to deliver the message to Pharaoh.  Moses immediately responds with excuses.  "Why me?" or "I won't know what to say."  God's promise is that He will be with Moses, but Moses continues to argue, even when God shows him miracles he can perform to prove that God had sent him. Still Moses is reluctant, to the point of telling God to send someone else.  Now look at a very short verse which is God's response to the reluctance of Moses:

Exodus 4:14 " Then the LORD’s anger burned against Moses"

From the burning bush to the burning anger of the Lord......all because Moses lacked the faith that God would be with him.  Do we have the faith to move forward in our spiritual journey, based on God's promise to the with us?

One thing God had equipped Moses with was the miraculous staff, the same staff that had turned into a snake  and then back to a staff again. God promised Moses he could perform miracles with that staff.  So now the escape from Egypt took them to the Red Sea and they were being pursued by the Egyptian army.  Moses cries to God for help and God reminds Moses about the staff, and instructs him to wave it across the sea and they can escape on dry ground.   God equips us with the gifts of his Spirit. Tools that help us in our journey.  Can you think of times you were equipped with exactly what was needed to overcome a problem or sin?  Remember, God promises to be with us.

Like Moses, we will have times in our lives where God expects us to demonstrate our faith in his ability to provide and his willingness to help. Think of steps you might take to make God's promises a source of your strength every day.

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Note: because of schedule issues and the "holiday in the middle of the week," some of the posts this week will be from our Archives.  --RonB