Identity Crisis: Value

I know ya’ll bout tired of all my devotionals being entitled Identity Crisis (lol) but when you’ve been lied to by the devil for so many years it’ll take more than a few devotionals to straighten it all out. This one is about knowing your value and the value of God’s principles.

First we will start with knowing your own value and abilities. You were a sinner for YEARS! And if the truth is told you were still kind of in and out of it after being saved; or maybe that was just me, yet the Father STILL decided to stick with you because He saw how valuable you were and all that you could become. Just to make it more plain there are times when God will tell you something about yourself and something you CAN do but instead since you don’t know your value you respond with some type of excuse or flaw you have…or maybe that’s just me…and thankfully  Moses too. People give him a hard time for resisting God at first (and I’m about to too lol) but I find comfort in knowing someone like the great Moses had a few moments like I have.  In Exodus 3 around verse 11 Moses gives PLENTY of excuses of why he can’t go tell Pharaoh to free his people from bondage. The part that I want to focus on though is in chapter 4:10-11:

“And Moses said unto the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither hencetofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue ¹¹And the Lord said unto him, Who has made man’s mouth….”

GOT’EEM!!! Seriously though God is ssssoo bbaaddd!! So here we have Moses that has been complaining and making excuses and second guessing himself for literally about a full chapter. And AFTER God does signs such as turning Moses’ staff into a snake and then giving his hand leprosy and then taking it away, Moses just comes right out and admits that he can’t really talk impressively enough to get the job done. We’ll take a break to insert ourselves into the story. What has God told you to do or that you are capable of and you are steady telling him you can’t. There are plenty of excuses that you are making, flaws that you are finding but God says otherwise. He asks Moses who made his mouth. It is God who made His mouth and I’m sure God feels that He did a good job. And to bring it back home it is God who has made you, and made you exactly how He wanted you to be made. You have been through exactly what you needed to go through to focus on God and hear what He is saying to you. My challenge to you at this point is to believe what God is saying.  If God says something about you and you disagree not only is that disobedience but one of ya’ll is lying and I trust that you are smart enough to figure out who it is.

Hopefully you don’t find my tone overbearing or judgmental but its really time to get with the program and run with what God is telling us. First we must slow down and listen so that we can hear what He is revealing about us. There was something about us that allowed Him to love us through all of our constant compromises, sins of commission and omission and I think that valuable gem was the words that He spoke over us and the purpose that He gave us. Don’t resist the Lord any longer, there are people waiting on you to get in your place so that they can get the answer from God that they have been praying for. How many enslaved people had been praying and crying for God to free them from Pharaoh? While Moses was going back and forth with God about whether or not he could go through with the plan how many people gave up on being free or maybe even died a slave? Don’t’ be scared or intimidated simply believe God and line up with the will. Moses let us know how messed up he was but look at how much he got done and how great he ended up being, we are talking about him to this day!