You've Got To Stop Trying To Do It Yourself

My Utmost For His Highest

“…when Moses was grown…he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens.” —Exodus 2:11

“Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his first strike for God and for what was right, God allowed Moses to be driven into empty discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses and said to him, “ ‘…bring My people…out of Egypt.’ But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go…?’ ” (Exodus 3:10-11). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.”  CHAMBERS

Serving God in our own strength.  We all know what God expects of us.  That is never in doubt.  That is not the problem.  The question is one of how are we going to go about it.  When Moses sensed that he needed to step out from under the life of power and prestige that being in Pharaoh’s court gave him, he tried to do what we all have tried or perhaps are trying to do.  He tried to do it on his own.  I once heard someone say, “Do all you can and leave the rest to God.”  Sounds noble.  But it is out of order. Instead of starting with me .. I need to start with God.  Moses asked “Who am I?”  He understood the limitations of his flesh and the unlimited power of God.  The mighty things he did after his season of preparation, he did with an intimate relationship with God.  God manifested Himself through Moses obedience.  Moses understood that he could not do what God sent him to do on his own.  “Who am I that I should go..?” 

We might and should ask the same question of ourselves.  Who are we that we should live a life of faith?  We can’t do it on our own.  But only through an intimate relationship with the Father. So here it is again … “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.”  (Prov 3:5-6)  ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)