Worships' Focus is the Light of Life
The Light of Life series
Every person displayed in God's Word can be observed as a sinner saved by God's grace and nothing more. The fruit seen in the faith and character of the lives of God's children are the direct result of God's grace. Such is the case with Moses, who sacrificed his position at the head of the world's largest kingdom of his time because he valued the riches of Christ more.
God's Grace Transformed Moses
"By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward." (Hebrews 11:24-26).
God's Grace Persevered to His Glory
Sometimes, a lack of attention to what another says is an inability to understand what is being said. God said to Moses in Exodus 3:8, "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians..." God then follows his first statement with verse 10, "Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."
Moses then responds to God in verse 11, "But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?" God then has to repeat what He said originally in another way in verse 12, "And He said, "Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain."
The conversation does not end here but continues for nearly another chapter as Moses continues to see what he is being asked to do as if God would not be present. By the time we reach verse 14 in the following chapter, we read these sad words, "Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite?" They are sad words because every person God chooses to work for His kingdom is incapable of doing what God wants. God chose Moses to speak on His behalf, and in that way, God would get all the more glory, but as unenlightened men, we always think about our capabilities. How dumb is that?
God's Grace Transforms All His Children for His Glory
What man can work miracles? Who can change a sinner's heart so they might believe? Who can harden a Pharoah so that God can destroy a nation? Who can cause God's children to believe what God says? Can a pastor, teacher, seminary professor? It is God who prepares the hearts of men, and it is God who brings the dead to life and causes the blind to see and the deaf to hear.
"When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions." (Colossians 2:13). God's people are so slow to believe that it is God who saves, and calls the dead back to life.
Often, there are problems in the homes of God's most used servants. Who was used more significantly than Moses, and what do we read of Moses in verses 24-25? "Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me."
God Can Work Through Difficult Living Situations for His Glory
Zipporah was a Midianite and obviously did not want to listen to Moses about circumcising her son. When she saw God would put him to death, she circumcised her son and through the skin at Moses' feet. So often, people are so prim and proper on a Sunday morning when what should take place is honesty, transparency, and interactions that manifest God's grace, prayer and the restoration of God's people.
God's grace transformed Moses from a General in Egypt to a servant of God in Israel.
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