Monday, January 10, 2011

God's Way Never Fails

Acts 7:24-25

24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.

How many times have you attempted to do something in your own strength only to find out you can't? Stephen, one of the Greek followers of Christ, was one of the seven appointed by the apostles to care for the needs of those in the church that felt unattended to. Stephen was accused of committing heresies because many were jealous that God was with him and used him to perform miraculous signs and wonders, a characteristic of an evangelist much like Philip. Stephen was answering the charges against him in front of the Sanhedrin. Ultimately he was stoned to death and his situation was the very catalyst that helped bring Saul (Paul) to God. He used the story of Moses to make a very valid point. Though Moses was sent by God to deliver God's people from the Egyptians, he was not operating in God's strength, he was operating in his own. For that is why he was not recognized by the very people he was supposed to help. He used Moses as an example to show the Sanhedrin how time and time again, they were always operating in their own strength and so rejecting that which was truly of God. It took Moses forty years to come to a place where he was willing to let go of trying to do things his way and learn God's way.

How many of us have been like Moses? Just because we know something, doesn't mean we act in our time and in our way. We must do everything in God's time and in God's way. What happened to Moses when he attempted to act on his own? He not only murdered a man but he was not seen favorably by the very people he was meant to help. In attempting to help in his own way he became destructive. Why? Because that was the only way he knew. It took him forty years to learn God's way. God's way meant to operate in love. At that time, all he knew was to operate with man power. Have you learned God's way yet? Have you learned that doing anything your way doesn't mean it will work? Do you know that God's way never fails? Even when it looks like it might have, trust, God's way is the perfect way in all things.

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