Basic text: Hebrews 11: 23-26
A few years ago, in an airport parking lot, someone recorded very bad words on the wall so everyone could see “I can’t do it anymore,” in English, with several exclamation marks. Who would have bothered to climb a wall and remove the paint from the wall to tell them about their pain?
- Maybe a teenager under pressure from the family.
- Maybe a young man during a romantic crisis?If you’re a businessman in crisis or an abandoned wife or a cheated husband.
- Who wrote this?An adult? I don’t know.
- But I know that around us.
- In these 30 years of ministry.
- Even in our churches.
- There are a lot of people with a scratched heart: “I can’t take it anymore!”.
In this text of Hebrews, God speaks to us through the experience and testimony of Moses, who has addressed a large number of people. If we add the responsibilities and burdens on the backs of every shepherd in this country, he may not reach the burden this man had on him. What did this man endure? What’s your secret?
First, he let go of the pressure of his responsibilities because he knew who he was. It was the principle of identity. He was part of the royal family, he had many advantages, he was considered the son of the pharaoh’s daughter, he had access to luxury, good food, good trips. However, he rejected all this. He knew that he was the son of the Hebrews and he accepted it as God’s will, without complexes, without prejudice or shame. The reason we can’t take it anymore is because these people haven’t accepted what God has done to them. Don’t they accept their families, their names, their bodies? they fight with God and with his sovereignty. They keep saying, “Oh, if I was like that person. ” If you feel that way, I want you, in Jesus name, to reject that kind of thinking. God does not make mistakes. If he created you with this body, in this family, in this place, it is because he knows that this is the best way to use it and that you glorify it. “Look at his calling,” Paul said to the Corinthians, continuing, “Didn’t they mistake some strong flesh to boast before him? (1 Cor 1: 26-29). God uses what the world despises because it doesn’t think like us.
Second, Moses knew who he belonged to. Do you know who you belong to, who is the supreme king of your life?If you are a child of God, stand firm in this position. Most of those who may no longer have lost sight of their identity in Christ. We are bought at a high price, we have been washed, justified, and sanctified in Jesus Christ. We are a new creature in Christ, we are children of God, we are born of God and the evil one cannot touch us, we are the salt of the earth, we are the light of the world, we are servants of justice, we are chosen and separated by God for the praise of his glory.
Third, Moses knew who to please. He renounced the great power of his time, pleasure to Pharaoh would be very convenient for Moses, was he rich, powerful, and authoritarian?He was the patron, mentor, godfather, and adoptive father of Moses, brethren, it is impossible to please everyone. , the important thing is to please God.
In the end, Moses knew what his goal was, the saddest thing in human life is not to have a definite goal or to have a bad goal, the person seeking money, fame, satisfaction and forgetting that our goal is paradise is a reason for us not to endure anymore. Our reward is in heaven and that is our goal. Our old hymns always spoke of paradise, but today the earth is our goal. We’re here for a while, but he’ll be here soon for us. Brother, the smallest feast of paradise will make the greatest joy on earth look like a funeral, it is not only because of the golden streets or because there is no pain there, but because God is there, He is our reward, He is our pleasure, He is our heritage and our share. We must have God as the goal of our lives.
By Silas Campos in the XIV Christian Consciousness (VINACC)? 2012