I got the call one hot September
day, the call that most people who follow Christ would jump for joy; at the time
it was not the call I wanted to answer. It was the call that I would have love
to do in a different time, and place in my life, but not while I was in this
deep dark hole of depression. When you are asking God “why am I in this pit of
Hell,” you don’t want God to say “I am calling you to Africa.” Wait a minute, I
was just asking God to let me get through the next hour of my life, not lets
pack your bags you are heading to Africa! At first I thought I had heard wrong
and ask the question “How can God use a broken girl?”
Well let me just tell you,
sometimes we have to be broken before we can truly see the wonders of God. We
have to be so face down in the slimly pit of brokenness that we can truly see what
God’s mighty hand can do. If we look at Exodus chapter 5, we see that Moses is
talking to the Pharaoh about letting the Israelites go out into the desert, and
worship the LORD for three days. Just three days to worship GOD, not a lot to ask
from the king. But with his harden of
his heart, he refused for them to go and worship God. And on top of that he
tells the overseers to not supply straw to the Israelites to make bricks, but
they have to make the same quote daily. Talk about adding extra weight to the
already burden of Israelites, not only would they have to find their own straw,
they would have to keep up with the same amount of bricks that took them all
day to make.
This caused hardship on the
Israelites; to the point that Moses starts questioning and doubting God for
bring him there. Moses states in Chapter
5: 22-23 “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why
you sent me? Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought
trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all” Can you
picture Moses stomping his feet asking God why? He even claims that God has
done nothing to help these people, and for putting him in this situation. It is
as if Moses had forgotten that God called him out of the desert to deliver
God’s people into the promise land. Once things got hard, Moses wanted to throw
in the towel and quite, blaming God for the whole ordeal. Is this starting to
sound like something you would say? Are you squirming in your seat ask yourself
that can’t be right?
Why is it we get so caught up in
the bad of the situation that we forget what God has promise us individual
promises and as a whole promises? Have you every question God’s timing, or plan
in what He has for you? I have and you better believe that I stomped my feet
and asked Him why? But here is the kicker, God got my attention… yep my head
was raised to the sky asking why and that is when He let me see that I had to
be totally broken to see the next move.If we go back to Exodus 6:1 God answers Moses with “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go, because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country’” Did you catch that with “MY” might hand, God just put Moses back into his place. God is clearly saying that this is being done through me not you!! Moses you are just the deliver not the one that is going to do the wonders. God had to put the Israelites and Moses upon their faces to show them that He was going to deliver the people out of Egypt.
God had to bring the burden on His people to get their attention to look toward the heavens for help. Once their focus was on heaven that is when God would move in His timing to produce on His promises. So back to that slimy pit I was face down in, if God had not gotten me on my face and called me to Africa, I would have done it on my strength and not HIS. God would never gotten the glory and I would be sitting at home still thinking about Africa.
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