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by Bob and Debby Gass
Taking Your Place in the Plan of God
May 6, 2010
‘...I am...the God of Abraham...Isaac and...Jacob...’ Exodus 3:6 NKJV
Today we’re conditioned to think in terms of instant gratification. We’re the generation of lunch-time face lifts and text messaging; we hate to wait for anything. Think about the last time you had to wait for something to arrive by ‘snail mail’ or stand in line at the checkout counter. Now, here’s where we get it wrong: we expect whatever God initiates through us to be completed while we are still around to see the end result. We don’t like it when He decides to continue the work through another person-or worse-another generation! But that’s how God works. When God reveals something to you it’s usually within the framework of what’s already taken place before you came on the scene. He told Moses, ‘I am the God of your father…of Abraham…Isaac and…Jacob.’ God had made certain promises to Moses’ forefathers hundreds of years earlier, and now it was Moses’ time to take his place in the plan of God. Accepting that you’re a small link in a big chain can be humbling, but once Moses understood it he was able to connect with and focus on something bigger than himself. ‘It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.’ (1 Corinthians 3:7-8 NLT) It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you’re not concerned about who carries the torch over the finish line.
SoulFood: Num 25-26, Mark 7:1-13, Ps 37: 32-40, Pr 11:7-8
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2010
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