I cant…
Exodus 7:7, “Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.”
Who in their right mind would send an eighty year old and an eighty three year old to rescue somebody for them? I mean, let’s get real! What can two senior citizens say when they come before Pharaoh? Are they gonna beat him over the head with their canes? Maybe they can scare him with their false teeth.
Surely, if you or I were going to pick someone for such a demanding job we’d choose somebody young and virile, like Charlton Heston was in The Ten Commandments. It’s been a while since I saw that movie, but I don’t think Heston had a grey hair on his heard. He was ripped, and you could tell he worked out a lot. It’s just not the image I get of the geriatric Moses, and if eighty year old Moses wasn’t bad enough God told him to take Aaron along with him for help! Aaron was older than Moses!!!!!!!!
I think God is trying to tell us something here. It’s a theme that stretches all throughout the Bible! God chose the weakest, smallest nation on the earth(Israel) to be His people, then when He was looking for a king to put over them He chose the smallest, youngest and weakest of the sons of Jesse(David).
And after many generations of mankind failing God again and again He decided to step in and fix what we had messed up. But God did not step forward with a mighty army to slay His enemies. Instead, God sent a baby! A totally helpless baby, and He grew up among mankind, and then He was killed by man-kind to save man-kind. I know that some of you are scratching your heads right now; thinking in your mind, “That makes no sense.” Don’t worry sometimes I scratch my head and get a dumb look when I think about how God chose to save us. I’m sure the Israelites in Egypt were confused when an old man like Moses said, “God sent me to rescue you.”
But, do you see the picture that God painted? All throughout the Bible God is saying that it we really don’t matter. He can take anyone, or anything and use them or it for His glory. Listen to these words of Jesus, Luke 19:40, “But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!” God can even use the inanimate rocks that we kick around with our feet for His glory!
So, the next time God asks you to do something and you feel like you can’t do it don’t feel to bad because YOU can’t do it, but He can do it through you. The Apostle Paul, who by the way was no superstar himself, but wrote 2/3 of the New Testament, said inII Corinthians 12:9-10, “And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” You see Paul understood that he could nothing for God under his power, but with God’s strength he could do anything; and other’s would see that he did this only because God gave him the power.
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Father, I thank You for giving me the strength to do the things to glorify You, and I ask that You would remind me of Your power that is at my disposal to glorify Yourself. In Jesus’ name, Amen
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