May 30
Do not despise
these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin (Zechariah
4:10 NLT).
It is no small thing to be involved in the
testimony of God's glory. We should not make a virtue of
smallness, as though there were something important about being despised by
others, but at the same time we shall find that whenever God has called people
to display His glory, He has chosen those who have no glory in themselves.
God has always been obliged to strip His
instruments of their own glory. A Moses, full of Egypt‟s sufficiency, must go for forty years to the backside of
the desert to be emptied out and made to confess his complete inadequacy before
he can become an instrument for the display of the glory of God. There were
times when some of the Israelites did try to despise this now humble Moses, and
he made no attempt to stand up for himself, but God soon made it manifest to
all concerned how wrong it was to despise him. The glory of God appeared at the
gate of the tabernacle and took up the challenge. Sometimes it takes the Lord
years to get us sufficiently emptied, weak and small, so that we can bear His
glory in our lives, a fact which may well explain some of His dealings with us.
When He has got us small enough and empty enough, then there is a chance for
the working of His Spirit in glory.
From: “By My
Spirit”
No comments:
Post a Comment