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God Works Through People

God famously called Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3. There the Lord told Moses that he had a special assignment—to go to Egypt’s Pharoah and demand the release of the Hebrew slaves. 

 

After describing the Hebrews’ plight to Moses, God declared, “and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey…(v.8).” 

 

God had come down to deliver them. That was great news! God was going to show up and fix everything. 

 

But then just two verses later God seems to have changed His mind, saying, “Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt (v.10).”

 

So which is it? Was God coming down to deliver His people, or was God sending Moses to deliver His people? 

 

The two are not mutually exclusive. It was not either/or, but both. God was coming down to equip Moses for the job. Over the next chapter the Lord addressed each of Moses’ concerns about his own insufficiency, and then God performed a few miraculous signs to assure Moses that God was with him. 

 

There are probably things you have seen that need to be done, and you might wonder when God is going to do something about it. It may just be that He is sending you to do it. God works, but He works through people. There are times that God will part the waters, but He often uses a human to raise the staff first. 

 

What big thing is on your heart that you wish God would do? Pray and ask Him to use you to accomplish it. Or, maybe you need to stop wrestling with God and say yes to what He has already called you to do. 

 

You can throw every excuse in the book His way, just as Moses did, but remember, if God calls you to do it, He empowers you to do it. It isn’t you doing it, it is God through you. 

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