April 28

Those of us who have committed ourselves to the Lord have a deep yearning to serve Him and one of the ways we most long to see our witness take affect is by the conversion of those we love to a fullness of faith in Christ. This longing goes back to the earliest pages of scripture where it is expressed by Moses.

Moses was called by God to lead His people the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. Moses discovered that leading people into the promised blessing of God is not an easy task. Our human will often thwarts God’s will and our progress toward the provision He desires us to have is impeded by our own resistance.

We lift the prayer Moses prayed in Exodus 33:13 for the Israelites in the behalf of ourselves and those we long to see following the Christ we love—“Now, therefore, I pray to You, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me how I may know You better and have Your grace for myself and for these I lead for You.” Like Moses, we must ask Him to show us how to overcome the hindrances before us.

To spare ourselves frustration in our attempt to keep those we love on the path to God’s full blessings of salvation and provision, we must remember that HE will empower us to accomplish all He calls us to do. We must say as Moses did when being pursued by pharaoh’s army, as the Red Sea parted so the people could escape pharaoh’s chariots on dry ground, “Stand still and behold the salvation of God” (Exodus 14:13)