When you’re the outside person looking in with someone, it is so much
easier for us to make comments like “oh I wouldn’t have done that” or “that
person knows better”. What we don’t
realize is that those statements diminish if we’re put smack in the middle of
that every same situation. A perfect
example of that is grief. Unless you
have experienced it sayings like “move on” can be so much easier to say from
the outside looking in.
Yet I find myself doing the same
thing. “How can they do that?” How many times does God have to tell them?” However, the more I go on these Bible
adventures in reading God’s word, the more I can see myself in them.
Moses telling God about how he
stutters so no way can he be the one to speak out for the people to
Pharoah. There have been times when I
have told God I can’t do that, I don’t even know how to do it.
Gideon wants confirmation more
than once. I too have asked God for signs
more than once to make sure it was his leading.
Peter letting his emotions get
the best of him at times. I too allow my
emotions to get the best of me and then wish I hadn’t when the dust has
settled.
David with his temptation. Particularly when becoming a widow having to ask God’s help so I don’t be led by temptation as becoming to close to doing so.
Here’s another factor I found
with them as with myself lately.
Surpassing my knowledge and becoming fuller of his love in knowing He
loves me despite myself. God loves me
through my weaknesses like fear, pride, frustration, and even lust. Yet He doesn’t just stop there. When we open our hearts to him, He
turns around and changes that heart.
Transformation becomes not only strength but softens our hearts with
others in their circumstances. God was
right there in Moses, Gideon, Peter, and David’s weaknesses. They didn’t stay there but became powerful
man of God in those same stories.
So let us surpass our knowledge and
allow God to fill us up with his love.
Let that transformation take place.
The reality is in our weakness he makes strong. In His strength he can turn it into a beautiful
story that glories Him!
Ephesians 3:19
May you experience the love of
Christ, through it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made
complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
