The life humbled - Listen to God

Exo 4:10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."

14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it."

Life Humbled - Listening to God

As i was reading the passage, its amazing that even the most humble person and one who is mightily used by God could have made God upset. Its no doubt that Moses was humble, but he also lack self-confidence in making choices that would ultimately please God.

Imagine God speaking to you directly and you ask God to send someone else. In life, God give us many choices, sometimes he tells us directly and all he wants is for us to accept his decision.
Recently, someone made me really upset by the things the ''person'' did and the person must remain nameless.hahaha.... unfortunately this is not gossip blog. I had a choice to choose if I could forgive seriously i never thought it was this hard, sometimes its really hard.... i sat down and prayed and asked God... and then something inside spoke to me... Paul Paul... do you want to be in my presence, do you love me, if you do ..then you have to do the right thing. The bible says love covers over a multitude of sin... so i had to resolve this in my heart.

I asked God to release the forgiveness. and pray to God for strength. And i found out what a great relief. Looking back at Moses, i suppose Moses was humble but sometimes he can be quite stubborn.... and when things gets too difficult he would back down... the bible tells us God's anger burned against Moses, but God relented.... and gave him Aaron . There were times God was really upset with Moses but every time he relents. It was only in the later stage that God banished Moses for his disobedience


Numbers 20

Moses Strikes the Rock

1 In the first month of the year,^[a] the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.

2 There was no water for the people to drink at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The people blamed Moses and said, “If only we had died in the Lord’s presence with our brothers! 4 Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock? 5 Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place? This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates, and no water to drink!”

6 Moses and Aaron turned away from the people and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle,^[b] where they fell face down on the ground. Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to them, 7 and the Lord said to Moses, 8 “You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.”

9 So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the Lord. 10 Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.

12 But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!” 13 This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means “arguing”) because there the people of Israel argued with the Lord, and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.

I think God knew Moses still had to deal with his own issue and he was still at the infant stage of his calling.... but what i saw in the later stage was his refusal to change and fully obey caused him to be banished from the promise land.It does tells me that there is still limit to God's patience, and we should always be aware of our weakness and make every attempt to change so that we would not loss out on our promise land...

1 Cor 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Don't let stubborness and disobedience cause you to loss your promise land