Don't Grow Weary

“Now therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please show me now Your ways, that I may know You in order to find favor in Your sight. Consider too that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”  And he said to Him, “If Your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.”

~Exodus 33:13-15

The Lord called Moses to free the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, and during this time, he also saw the Lord move in mighty ways. From the parting of the Red Sea to the cloud covering during the day and the pillar of fire at night, from water coming out of the rock to manna from Heaven, Moses saw God move in the lives of His people in ways that must’ve left him awestruck. Moses was a humble man (Numbers 12:3), and it was his humility that made him the perfect man for the job of leading the children of Israel to the promised land. Moses was also faithful, and no matter what happened along the journey, he did not waver from believing God was who He said He was, or that God was going to complete what He promised to do. The journey took forty years across the desert, with thousands of whining people complaining and blaming Moses for their plight, yet Moses remained steadfast in his faith in God. Moses knew that no matter what happened, as long as God was with him, everything would be all right.

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9).”

I’m sure over the forty years Moses led the Israelites through the desert, there were times he wanted to give up. There were probably times he doubted God’s wisdom at saving the people he led, and there were probably times he considered sneaking off in the darkness and leaving them to figure it out for themselves. Sometimes life is like that, no matter what we do, it feels like we are just spinning our wheels, getting nowhere and not making a dent. No one listens, no one cares, so what’s the use of trying? We all feel that way from time to time and it can be frustrating. But no matter what life looks like right now, we cannot see tomorrow. We don’t know how things will turn out next year or in ten years, but God does. Moses was eighty years old when he faced off with Pharaoh. I’m sure when he was seventy, he never imagined that’s what he’d be doing in ten years. Our perseverance is important to God. Our patience is important to God. And our humility is important to God. When we say we belong to God and have turned our lives over to Him, we just might have to prove it in ways we never imagined.

“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us (Romans 5:1-6).”

Read Matthew 11-15

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