Today's Passage: Exodus 6
Have you ever tried to help someone that had lost all hope? We are in a time right now where we are going to be reaching out to people who have sadly, just accepted the situation that they are in. Those people will be some of the most challenging people God has ever asked you and I to speak with, but they will also be the people who are most in need of God's hope.
We know that Moses saw the task that God had given him as a tall order. He had lots of excuses why God shouldn't use him. But the bottom line was God did choose Moses and He has also chosen us as believers to stand up for and spread the hope of Jesus Christ. Many of us are just like Moses, we don't feel comfortable "sharing our faith". We tell God that we don't know the right words or that we see no reason for anyone to listen to us.
I find it interesting that we often fail to compare our own weaknesses to those of the people in the Bible. Moses faced a harder challenge than any of us have ever faced, yet God promises all of us that He has prepared the way for everything He asks us to do. We must never forget that even though our physical action of sharing what God is doing in our lives is one of the parts needed to lead someone to Christ. The most important part is God's power and spirit. God's power and spirit can overcome any barrier there might be in both the way that we communicate and in the way that someone hears the message.
God challenged Moses to communicate a message of hope to a group of people who thought there was no other way to live. He faced a communication barrier on his own behalf as well as closed hearts and broken spirits in the Israelites. God has given this story to us so that we can learn from Moses' situation and be encouraged. If Moses can communicate God's story of freedom and hope to all of Egypt, then we can definitely have a couple tough conversations with those around us.
People need hope especially in these times, and we as the church should be sharing the unmatched hope that is in Jesus Christ.
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