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Saturday, September 28, 2019

YOU ARE NOT ENOUGH. AND THAT’S OKAY.


Self-doubt. Inadequacy. Not-enoughness. Sound familiar?

Whether you’re 17 or 70, this appears to be a universal area of the human condition that never seems  to disappear completely.

Even one  of Israel’s greatest leaders, Moses, suffered from it.

When God told Moses to inform the Israelites that He’d deliver them from their cruel Egyptian slave masters, have a look  at how he responded:

“They won’t trust me. They won’t listen  to a word I say. They’re planning  to say, ‘God? Appear to him? Hardly!’” (Exodus 4:1 MSG)
“O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I do not  have been, and I’m not now…. I have tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.” (Exodus 4:10 NLT)

Moses thought himself a clumsy speaker, and doubted that the Israelites—much less their enemy king Pharaoh—would listen  to him. Even his older brother Aaron had to  be his spokesperson for some time.

As well as  on one occasion, when negotiations with Pharaoh didn’t go very  well, Moses got frustrated and blamed God: “Why have you brought all of this trouble all on your own people, Lord? Why do  you send me? From the time I came to Pharaoh as the spokesman, he has got been even  more brutal to your people. And you have done absolutely nothing  to rescue them!” (Exodus 5:22 NLT) (Do his complaints sound familiar to your very own?)
Yet still. 

But still. That didn’t stop the Lord from using Moses mightily in eventually delivering the Israelites. If  you read his story in Exodus, you’ll observe  how he continued to boldly tell Pharaoh multiple times, “Let my people go!”, and negotiated with the king through the entire ten plagues that  the father sent upon Egypt.

Impressive for somebody  who called himself a stutterer and stammerer, eh. And eventually, upon the Lord’s direction, Moses picked up his staff, raised his hand on  the Red Sea, and God parted it to allow the Israelites to pass through on dry land, and escape Pharaoh’s pursuing chariots. You have to have a look at this mind-blowing story in Exodus 14.
Despite the fact that Pharaoh’s armies still chased them to  the sea,  the father told Moses to improve his hand over  the sea again if  the Israelites had reached one  other side safely. 

The seawaters then rushed back together and drowned Pharaoh’s entire army. (Exodus 14:26) All this work, when Moses was 80 years of age. Does  this story of a flawed man who was simply still mightily utilized  by God encourage you? Even just before Moses split the Red Sea upon God’s directive, he was still reported to  be crying off  to God because  the Israelites, seeing that Pharaoh’s armies were in hot pursuit, asked him, “Because there have been no graves in Egypt, perhaps you have taken us away to die when you look at  the wilderness?” (Exodus 14:11, 15) From  the first day  the father called him till he breathed his last, Moses was always aware ( as well as  perhaps sheepish or embarrassed) about his weaknesses as a leader. But this was a person of whom the Lord said when  he died at 120, that no prophet has arisen in Israel like him, whom the Lord knew in person. (Deuteronomy 34:10 NASB)
Perhaps development  in our Christian walk is really about that: Growing more aware of y our inadequacy, but additionally knowing  that those feelings of inadequacy cannot stand in the way of God using us to complete great things for Him.

While the Lord told Paul, another great leader within  the Bible—My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected, completed, and shows itself most effectively in your weakness.” (see 2 Corinthians 12:9 AMP)
Knowing you will be weak doesn’t have  to make one  feel discouraged with yourself, but  it can encourage you to definitely uncover  the Lord’s strength and just how  much it is possible to depend  on Him to be adequate where you simply cannot.

You have got a God who loves both you  and really wants  to allow  for you.
Will you allow Him to be much  more than enough for the not-enoughs today?

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