noun, yet only through the fullness
of God is it complete.
that impressive. Instead, he listed
one excuse after another as to why
he wasn't the man for the job. He
even said, "Pardon your servant,
Lord. Please send someone else"
(Exodus 4:13). Sound familiar? It
sure does in my life. I AM might
say He'll go with me, while I keep
asking "Who am I?"
he came to savor God's presence
more than anything else. The L
fl owing with milk and honey. But
I will not go with you, because
you are a stiff-necked people and
I might destroy you on the way"
(Exodus 33:3). Moses couldn't help
but cry out, "If your Presence does
not go with us, do not send us up
Promised Land held no promise
without God's presence.
a supernatural nature on our own
can we begin to let God fully work in
and through us. Oswald Chambers
writes, "When we have come to the
end of ourselves, not in imagination
the Holy Spirit."
go, nor could he have performed the
many miracles and plagues neces-
sary to cause their release. On their
own, Joshua and his followers
couldn't have made the walls of
Jericho fall simply by marching and
blowing trumpets. Noah couldn't
have gotten two of every kind of
animal to board his boat. And
without God being with her, my
friend Sheila never would have
grown to love the group of rowdy
Sunday school girls so much that they
begged her to disciple them four years
longer than she originally planned.
God-sized task lies ahead of you.
But the real question isn't "Who are
you to complete it?" Rather, it is
"Who is it that will go with you?"
Heart Ministries, lives in Highlands Ranch,
Colorado.