He said also, ``I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Then He said, ``Do not come near here remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ``Moses, Moses!" And he said, ``Here I am." So Moses said, ``I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up."
The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And His continued work will conform you to the image of His Son. Recalling how He’s worked in your past will strengthen your faith. He is committed to equipping His children to do whatever He asks.Īs a follower of Christ, you have a personal responsibility to say yes when God calls and to let Him achieve His purposes through you. We never have to take on His work in our own strength, and He won’t assign any task without enabling us.
Philippians 2:13 says that God Himself “is at work in you, both to desire and to work for His good pleasure.” There’s nothing to fear. He promises that if we believe Him and move forward in obedience, He will reveal what He wants done and enable us to accomplish it. God is more than able to equip His followers, but He can achieve His purposes with or without us. It amounts to telling God that He isn’t powerful enough to equip you-and that for His will to be accomplished, it depends upon your ability. I’ve met people who likewise knew the Lord had called them to do something, but they didn’t believe they could. When he was called to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses argued that he was the wrong person for the job because his speaking skills weren’t good (Ex.
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