“Give Us This Day….

Our Daily Bread”

 

In the eyes of man Moses had absolutely wrecked God’s plan—-not only His plan for Moses but His plan for all people.

 

God had rescued him from death at the hands of the Egyptians and he had traveled from slavery to royalty, from a hard life to life in the palace, and from a life of rejection to a life of prosperity.

 

But his heart had grown cold and in a moment of weakness, he had killed a man.

 

Exodus 2 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

 

And when I say “moment of weakness”, it probably was more than that.  Jesus warns us, again and again, about our thoughts. Our thoughts control our actions, and they might just be the result of weeks, or months, or even years of thoughts that lead us into a moment of action.  I believe this is why He warns us, again and again, about what we would put our minds, and our hearts, on.

 

And our reality is this:  We are just like Moses.

 

God sets in motion things that walk us right into our destiny.  He puts people, things, and circumstances in order that we might truly be “in the will of the everlasting and all-knowing and all-powerful” God.  And like Moses, we have a penchant for messing it up. Discouragement, sin, despair, and past circumstances all have the ability to push us into a mindset that can ruin the plans that might very well lead us into the “Promised Land.

 

But……..

 

This is not the end of the story.

 

Not for Moses.

 

And not for us.

 

The Bible shows us that God meets Moses in the wilderness. He heals him, strengthens him, prospers him, and prepares him to walk into his destiny.……and it is THE SAME destiny that He has planned from the beginning.

 

Exodus 2  10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am . F6 This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

 

This……is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

In all of our weakness, we have free will.  And that free will, combined with a sinful nature, can often lead us in the wrong direction.

 

In the case of Moses, it took him out of the destiny that God had for him…….or so it seemed.

 

But this is simply a house of cards when stood up to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

 

We have freedom.

 

And our freedom, when combined with the broken world and the freedom of everyone else in this broken world, can lead us to a place that is broken just like everybody else.

 

But we can not mess over God’s great plan.  His plan will reign. His will will prevail.  And His kingdom will ultimately rule. And there is not a thing that we can do about it.

 

In the eyes of man, we see everything in the flesh.  But we neglect sometimes to see the very thing that is needed.  God.

 

And with God all things are possible.

 

This reality can never be emphasized enough.  It is the truth for all ages. And it is the truth that was sealed in stone as Jesus paid off the debt on the cross.

 

You can tell me whatever you would like to about your failures and shortcomings and all the things that you have messed up.  But I can tell you, in one sentence, that none of that matters. Romans 5 assures us that no matter HOW BIG our brokenness can get….God’s grace GETS BIGGER.  (Romans 5)

 

And as true as it is on the side that is not broken as well.

 

I believe that Moses, away from God, did not have all he needed to free God’s people on the inside of the palace.  Because….without God, we do not have, in any circumstances, enough.

 

You see…..

 

I could give you a million dollars, but without God you will be in the grip of poverty.

I could give you perfect health, but without God you will be on death’s door.

I could give you the perfect love, but without God you will be in utterly miserable and alone.

I could give you incredible strength, but without God you will be indescribably weak.

 

The good news of the gospel is the reality that we all face:

 

We need God to fortify our lives that we might have victory.

 

And without it, we have nothing.

 

When you ask God

 

“Give Us This Day….

Our Daily Bread”

 

You are asking for the ONLY thing that you truly need.

 

And you don’t need anything else.

 

Take a moment to say the Lord’s Prayer….or listen to this song and sing it out in worship.  He will take whatever you’ve got. And remember what you are saying when you say: “Give Us This Day….Our Daily Bread”, because without the bread that God has for us—-we might as well have nothing at all.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIVSWdBaTE

 

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J