2009 – Day 74.Mar. 16 – Shortcuts To Futility

2009 – Day 74.Mar. 16 – Shortcuts To Futility

Passage of the Day: Exod. 6: 2 – 29 … Link to Exod. 6 for study …

My Journal for Today: Here we are, right in the midst of the story of the Exodus; and Moses apparently needed a pep talk from God. Things were not going well. Pharaoh wasn’t listening; and God’s people were balking. So, here in Exodus 6 we see God sitting Moses down and giving him a personal and historical lesson about the One Moses was serving and where the Lord had brought Moses.

And God didn’t rebuke Moses. No, the Lord took the time to retell the whole story to Moses, reminding him of His family and where God had led him. And in this pep talk, as Swindoll points out in his devotional today, we read of God saying clearly to Moses six separate times, “I am the Lord …” [see Exod. 6: 2, 6, 7, 8, 29]. Have you learned, as I have, that when God’s says something multiple times in a short segment of space [in His word], it’s time to pay attention and listen to God? Well, I think that is what God was trying to get across to Moses.

Moses needed to be reminded of the exactly Who was doing the leading here. And sometimes we can, as did Moses, have the tendency to look to the carnal when the Spirit-led course is not apparent in the circumstances of life. Oh, how I have the tendency to look within myself when things are not going the way I think they should. I want to get things done MY WAY; and I just won’t take the time to WAIT ON GOD.

So, here, sort of at the half-time of the Super Bowl of deliverance, God takes Moses into the locker room of life and reminds the quarterback of God’s team just where they are in this game and exactly Who is in charge in this game plan. And we know from “the rest of the story” that Moses listened to God; and he went back out on the field of this contest and did exactly what God coached him to do.

If things are not going well for you in the game of life, let God sit you down, through His written word or with council from a Godly counselor, and remind you that it is the Lord Who is in charge; and all you need to do is follow God’s game plan, which we can read and heed in Deut. 31: 8, Prov. 3: 5 – 6, Luke 9: 23, and all of Romans 8, as well as all of Ephesians 1.

So, if you’re going into the second half of your super bowl of life and things are going poorly, you go back and meditate deeply on those passages and realize that God is with you; … that He will guide you; … and that you serve the God Who cannot and will not be defeated.

Dear one … we have the advantage to see the score at the end of the game; and as I said a few days earlier, “WE WIN!”

My Prayer for Today: Lord, I am lifted up by Your truth and Your victory. Amen