I am meditating this morning on tomorrow's sermon. We are studying the life of Moses tomorrow and next week before moving on to study David.
Moses starts out living in the lap of luxury in Pharaoh's house hold. He gives all that up to be with his people the Hebrews. The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt and were considered by the Egyptians to be a lower class of people. They cried out to the Lord and the Lord heard their cry. He set Moses apart to lead the liberation effort. But Moses had a list of excuses as to why he could not fulfill the roll. Moses wrestled through all those insecurities and eventually went on to fulfill his divine destiny.
Moses fulfilling his divine destiny started with a choice.....it was a choice to forsake the world.
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The world has such a strong pull. It is alluring. Most are not able to overcome the tug of the world on their heart strings. As a result they end up missing most of what God has for them. Worldliness prevents people from walking in the plan that God has for their lives.
No one achieves their divine destiny until they settle this issue in their hearts: Am I going to pursue God or the things of the world? You will waste your life if you choose to pursue the world.
By the way...you can not do both. We desperately need to have a Joshua moment who said in Joshua 24:15 when he was speaking to the people "choose this day whom you shall serve......but as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord."
Joshua was determined to not fall into the world but to follow God. We need more of that kind of gritty resolve to follow Jesus in the church today.
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