Aug. 6, 2015
MY FRIENDS, UNDER THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL CAN WE STILL SERVE?
At times it becomes very personal as I focus on my journey. So Today I need my friends to make it personal also and with a sincere and contrite heart 
prepare to have a conversation with God, as we tell Him how badly we need Him to get us through today. In addition, we also feel we are breaking under the weight of it all and we are afraid we might fall and become unable to get up. So we feel empty but still willing to keep listening for that still small voice and looking for Him in the midst of the noise to hear if He is telling us to go?
Or telling us to stay? Or are You telling us to hold on to You for just one more day? (Mandisa, Where You Begin Paraphrased) My friends, this journey and the weight of it all takes its toll at times. Like “Moses who was at Horeb, the mountain of God tending His Father-in-laws sheep when a Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire….And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses!” Ex. 3:1-4 (NKJV)
What a journey for Moses, from a child of parents held in bondage by the Egyptians, to being raised in the royal courts by Pharaoh’s daughter to being
a fugitive on the run for murder and now Moses is eighty years old and I can only imagine He is also having a conversation with God feeling he is also breaking under the weight of it all. But still willing to keep listening until he hears from God.
And it is at this point God knows He can use Moses, because God is “long-suffering, not willing that any should perish but that all should repent” Before we can fully fulfill His plans for our life. So He tells Moses “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, “and have heard their cry….and now I want to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey.” Ex. 3:7-8 (NKJV)
My friends, we cannot be ashamed of the good news of the Gospel. Under the weight of it all God’s grace is sufficient to carry any and all burdens we may have that keeps us from finishing this journey. We must also understand Gods voice is getting faint because He knows we are not listening in the midst of the noise of Satan and the things of this world.
So what God sees in our heart is our willingness to stay luke warm and complacent about His end time prophecy and how close we are to His second coming. Consistent with this He hears the cry of His Children who feel they have no hope from the oppression of this world. He also sees that the “vineyard is plentiful.”
And even though there are no more Noah’s or Moses or Elijah’s or Rahab’s or David’s or Daniels or Peters or Mary Magdalene’s or Paul’s around, “the rocks will cry our if need be. But if there are a few who are willing to “foesake all others.” Like Moses, He needs faithful leaders who are willing to lead the children of God to the promise land. That land no “eye have seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV)
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