Friday January 26 (part 2, with all due respect to our Friday blogger Pastor Scott Taylor...). I just couldn't resist.
Exodus 3:19-23
Old time basketball fans (and even some of the younger ones) might remember the name Larry Bird. One of the things those who followed him closely know is that he was one of the worst (best?) trash talkers in the NBA. Why? Because he would tell you how he was going to make the shot WHILE you were guarding him, and then do it exactly that way.
[An example: from a FoxSports story..."Seattle's Xavier McDaniel was once guarding Bird when Larry explained to him on the court, "I'm going to get the ball right here and I am going to shoot it right in your face." Bird got the pass, found the spot he told McDaniel he would and then buried the shot. "I didn't mean to leave two seconds on the clock," Bird told McDaniel after the bucket.]
He was so good people started to believe him, because their eyes were opened to what he was doing, game after game, night after night. Before that shot, X-Man was probably thinking "Yeah, right...in my face? No way." You can bet the next time X-Man tried to guard him, when Bird talked, X believed him. Because he'd gotten to know Bird, up close and personal.
Moses didn't yet know God that way. So in Exodus 3:19-23, when God told Moses exactly what He was going to do to the Egyptians Moses had fled in fear, Moses struggled to believe Him. He must have been thin, king something along the lines of "Yeah, right...freedom...AND plunder? No way." We all know how that story turned out, and how Moses came to believe. How he got to know God, up close and personal.
Father, open our eyes to what you are doing in our lives, day after day, night after night. Help us get to know You, up close and personal. So that, like Moses, we might no longer doubt, we might only believe.
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