Genesis 22-25…Letting Go

God speaks in so many ways…

· Through friends

· songs on the radio

· A quiet voice in the back of our head

· Through the Bible (Which is kind of the point here)

· Nature (I am convinced that squirrels and pigeons are very good at this)

· Through situations

· Through leaders and mentors

God speaks in so many ways…I am convinced that he is always speaking; that he is always present and involved with our lives.

All that he asks from us is that we pay attention; that we listen to him.

Through many of these methods, I believe that God has been challenging me to stop taking responsibility for so many things that are not mine. I need to trust that the fields that I am planting belong to God and that he is, ultimately, responsible for making things grow. This is frightening concept that I haven’t really taken to heart yet…but I am learning.

From my Bible reading tonight, I got the picture that Moses eventually learned to handle the same concept that I am barely able to grasp.

So…last night I looked at the fact that Moses had to learn from Jethro that he needed help…that he needed to change the way that he was doing things.

Moses was challenged to find people who would help him out in the future so that he was not attempting to take on all of Isreal’s problems himself.

Tonight, I saw the fruits of Moses’s taking that advice.

In the process of making a covenant with Israel, God calls Moses to come up to the mountain and to literally spend time with him. (Exodus 24)

What God means by this is that he wants Moses to spend 40 days on the mountain with him. Moses gets to literally see God for 40 entire days! That would truly be incredible!

What I never saw about this passage when I read it in the past is the fact that Moses had to leave the Israelites with his judges for that time…he needed to leave Israel with a babysitter.

In order for Moses to see GOD to do what most of us merely dream of, he had to let go of his responsibility for a while and to trust that God would take care of things in his absence.

What do I mean here?

I feel challenged to remember that God is in charge of all of the things that I feel responsible for. In order to really experience what he has for me, I need to be willing to let go of all of it and to trust that he has it covered.