When Moses first told God of his inability to fulfill his calling, it was out of humility. After God answered his objections by assuring Moses that is was God's power that would work deliverance through him, Moses protest was no longer a sign of humility, but unbelief. It was a type of backsliding--reverting to the self-sufficient mindset that led him to "rescue" one of his fellow Hebrews 40 years earlier. When would Moses get it through his head that the work of God comes only through the power of God? When will we get it?
"We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us" 2 Corinthians 4:7, NIV. The very reason that God works through the frailty of man is to demonstrate how powerful He is. When our weakness is exposed by the overwhelming odds stacked against us....when the circumstances have been skillfully engineered into an insurmountable crisis that has everyone's attention...when it seems that we must succumb to the inevitable failure that is the lot of those who try to live righteous in a wicked world...when all eyes are on us to see how many pieces we're going to crack into under the pressure...when there's no reasonable human explanation of how you should be able to escape from this trap...when we've been stripped of every carnal innovation designed to hijack the glory of God...that's when God's power can be best displayed.
As we learn from the end of Moses' life, laying your glory in the dust and simultaneously having great expectations of God isn't easy. The Christian's ego is in a state of perpetual expectation of resurrection from the breath of pride giving it new life.
"We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us" 2 Corinthians 4:7, NIV. The very reason that God works through the frailty of man is to demonstrate how powerful He is. When our weakness is exposed by the overwhelming odds stacked against us....when the circumstances have been skillfully engineered into an insurmountable crisis that has everyone's attention...when it seems that we must succumb to the inevitable failure that is the lot of those who try to live righteous in a wicked world...when all eyes are on us to see how many pieces we're going to crack into under the pressure...when there's no reasonable human explanation of how you should be able to escape from this trap...when we've been stripped of every carnal innovation designed to hijack the glory of God...that's when God's power can be best displayed.
As we learn from the end of Moses' life, laying your glory in the dust and simultaneously having great expectations of God isn't easy. The Christian's ego is in a state of perpetual expectation of resurrection from the breath of pride giving it new life.
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