Sometimes we go through things not so much for us but for the sake of someone else. Your yesterday may be someone else's today. God may be preparing you to feed their today out of your experience of yesterday. That doesn't mean you won't wonder why such things are happening to you at the time
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Hindsight is an invaluable way to learn how things fit into God's plan. There is no such thing as "waste" in God's economy. He knows exactly what He is doing. God led Moses the prince of Egypt and murderer into the desert to teach him how to be a shepherd and deliverer. It was in the "desert relinquishment " that Moses learned many of the things he needed to lead israel through the Sinai. Moses wasn't thrilled about going back to Egypt and all of its memories. He wanted to have a pity party but no one showed up but the devil (that usually what happens at pity party)
David was also familiar with the process relinquishment. He was the one who wrote
Psalm 23:4 KJV
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Each one of us will experience our own valleys and feel the cold shadow of death on our shoulders at times. David, the same who lived in a cave as an exile and outlaw, and later ran for his life when his own son plotted to kill him, has some words of wisdom for us
The psalmist who endured decades of "relinquishment" while running from Saul's armies said, if you are in the valley of the shadow, just keep walking. What you need is an uninterrupted walk with God, even if He takes you through the dark valley. Just don't wallow in it. Don't linger there. Don't pitch your tent under that shadow. Above a, don't throw a pity party in that valley
Moses discovered that the process of relinquishment could transform his strengths into weaknesses and his weaknesses into strengths. When Moses turned aside to investigate the burning bush on Mount Sinai, God called out to him from the bush and later Moses said, Here am I[Ex 3:4b KJV) only seven verses later Moses was saying Who am I....? (Ex 3:11b)
You will never find our who you are until you say to God, Here I am" we must offer ourselves first. It is no good trying to find out what God wants first, and then deciding whether or not we are willing. We must offer ourselves unconditionally and simply, " Here I Am
This is what it means to relinquish ourselves to Him and this is what releases the power of God in our lives
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God was patient with His reluctant deliverer. Moses didn't start by parting the Red sea. He had to began by taking small, tentative steps of faith to relinquish his fears and take hold of God ability
Moses, what us in your hand? God asked. We know it was just a rod, a shepherd's staff, a mere stick. Yet that stick became a miracle when Moses turned it loose at God's command. When did it cease to be a miracle? The miraculous stopped and the mundane began when moses picked it back up. That is the power of relinquishment
It was customary for a shepherd in the time of Moses and David to whittle and carve his stories or personal history into the beam of his staff. Then it was passed from generation as a family heirloom. When God said to Moses, Give me your staff, " it was as if He was saying, Give me your staff, " it was the last symbol of authority
The lords says to each of us, "Turn it loose if you wan to be what I want you to be "it is in those moments that we discover the power of relinquishment. Only when everything and everyone but God is gone do we realize that God is enough
