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Has God placed something on your heart, or called you to do a work for Him that you are not doing? Have you listened to his voice speaking within you and made excuses to avoid performing what He has asked? Well, we make lots of excuses when God speaks, sometimes because what He asks sounds hard, sometimes because it requires sacrifice, and sometimes because we doubt our ability. Are you in the midst of making excuses right now?
As men and women we tend to look at our problems and seek to resolve them ourselves, but as Christians we are meant to look at our problems, especially those that we believe are insurmountable, and ask God to take them. The worldly see the problems we face, and they are quick to rob God of the glory when He works for us, and they can explain away our rescue, but when God does the impossible, He becomes undeniably real to those who were once doubters. So shouldn’t we praise Him in our darkest and most violent storms because it is here that the Lord can use our rescue as undeniable evidence to those who do not believe? It is here that our faith is strengthened, and our hope made real… even to us.
We are a lot like Moses when it comes to delivering the Gospel message. We question our ability with the same excuses which he used… we begin with saying that we are not the right person for the job and that God has obviously made a mistake by asking us to do this. Do you remember the universal excuse that Moses used, and that we are often guilty of employing?