LifeLink Devotions for Monday, September 30, 2024

Before we move on in our study of faith, let’s review the lessons we learned from Moses so they are firmly planted in our spirits where they will grow and bring forth a harvest of righteousness.

1.  No wrong is unforgivable by God. Moses thought he was disqualified because people rejected him for his murder of an Egyptian. But people don’t decide qualification for God’s service – God does. Colossians 1:12 says, “giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.”  

2.      No weakness is too big for God. It amazes me that we are so blinded by our pride that we would dare measure our inadequacies against the adequacy of God. Whatever it is that we think keeps us from being ready for the task is exactly where God will demonstrate His incredible power to make us adequate. Paul had this problem and came to this conclusion in 2 Corinthians 12:8-10: “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

3.      No worries are to become barriers to serving God. Moses was insecure, and he worried that he would be able to bring about the desired outcome. Worry is a product of insecurity and the need to control the outcome. Worry hinders faith and breeds fear. God answers our insecurities with His qualifications and eliminates our worry with His Word. When our lives are secure in the unfailing arms of God and the outcomes are guaranteed to be glorifying to God, there is no barrier left to serving God.

4.      No work is too hard for God. God can and will change us. God can and will change others. God will accomplish all that He has purposed. Do not settle for a discounted life. You were bought with the full price of Christ’s redemption. Let the full value of His life be applied to you and let Him completely change you. Anything else is to live beneath the privilege of your inheritance.

God has assigned us a task – to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ to a lost world. He has given us His Holy Spirit to empower us and equip us for the task. We have nothing to fear, as the Apostle Paul says in Romans 8:31-32.

“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”

By faith in God through Jesus Christ say “YES” to what God has called you to do.

Pastor John