Check All Ways!

Exodus 2:12
Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Moses saw the pain of his people. He saw the bondage and the injustice. His heart was enraged, and he decided he would do something.

He would take matters into his own hands. The result was murder.

The motive was right, but the action was wrong.

He went his way instead of God’s way. The action was wrong.

Moses fled to the desert, where God prepared the man who would ultimately be the deliverer of a nation. But it took 40 years of preparation before God determined Moses was ready. He was a sheepherder. It was during the commonplace activity of work that God called on him to be a deliverer.

Moses was like a lot of enthusiastic Christian people who seek to solve a spiritual problem with a worldly answer. The greatest danger to the Christian is his greatest strength, his sagacity to get things done. This self-reliance can become our greatest weakness when it comes to moving in the spiritual realm.

We're taught to be problem solvers. But, like Moses, if our enthusiasm and passion are not coupled the power of the Holy Spirit, we will fail miserably. Peter had to learn this lesson too. His enthusiasm got him into a lot of trouble. But God was patient, just as He is patient with each of us. Sometimes He must put us in the desert for a time in order to season us so that Christ is allowed to reign supreme in his life.

Before you act, pray and seek the mind of Christ until you know it is God behind the action. Check it out with others. You may save yourself a trip to the desert.

Prayer:
Dear Father in Heaven I pray we call on you before we jump into the deep end.
I pray that in anything we do; we can talk to you first and then do as you tell us.
Thank You Lord.

In the name of Jesus. Amen

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