even when i don’t feel like it…

GOD says if you want to live life as an adventure, obey immediately when i don’t understand it, give generously even when i don’t have it and trust completely even when i don’t feel like it.

this is the example of moses.  trust completely even when i don’t feel like it.  hebrews 11.24-27 (tniv),  by faith moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of pharaoh’s daughter.  he chose to be mistreated along with the people of GOD rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.  he regarded disgrace for the sake of CHRIST as of greater value than the treasures of egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.  by faith he left egypt, not fearing the king’s anger…

you know that moses’ life was one of the most exciting adventures in history.  they even made an adventure movie about it.  yul brenner (“so let it be written, so let it be done.”  and charlton heston parts the red sea and they go through it.)  moses made some difficult choices in which he chose discomfort over comfort and he had the adventure of his life as a result.  moses was a hebrew child placed in a basket on the nile river and pharaoh’s daughter found him and took him in and raised him as an egyptian.  he was raised an egyptian but he was a hebrew.  it says that when he had grown up, when he came to maturity he had to make a decision: what am i?  am i an egyptian or am i a jew?  to say “i’m an egyptian” meant he would have fame, fortune, pleasure, prestige – everything that we spend our entire lives trying to get.  if he said, “i am a jew” he would have to go live with the hebrew slaves in poverty with no guarantee of anything else. 

moses said i’m going to do the right thing.  i’m going to trust GOD even when i don’t feel like it.  he chose to go live with the slaves and because of that GOD had the greatest adventure of his life planned for him.  if moses had made the wrong choice he’d be some egyptian mummy in some museum today that none of us ever heard of.  but everybody here knows about moses.  why?  because he chose to trust GOD completely even when he didn’t feel like it. 

that is the mark of spiritual maturity. 

just a thought from the front porch…