Thoughts For Today

Why did Moses have to experience a time of solitude in the wilderness?  He would never have been able to take the people of Israel through the wilderness if he had not first experienced it himself.  You cannot lead someone to or out of something you have not gone through yourself.  More importantly, it was in the wilderness that Moses’ mentality was changed.  He had started out with the faith to deliver a single Israelite, when God’s plan was to use him to deliver the entire nation, numbering as many as three million, including men, women and children, “in one night” (Exodus 12:37).  Be encouraged.  Our wilderness experiences will work in us the capacity to accomplish God’s plan for our lives.  He wants to do above and beyond what we could ask or even imagine.  Paul wrote: “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20).  God’s desire is to equip us for the many challenges that await us, and He does it day by day while we are living this life He has given us.