The Power Of Our Limits

Read: Exodus 4:10-17

Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say. --- Exodus 4:12

The Bible In One Year:
2 Samuel 21-22
Luke 18:24-43

Moses, on the occasion of his call by God, made excuses. "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue" [Exodus 4:10].

The wording suggests that Moses had a speech impediment --- perhaps he stuttered. But the Lord said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?" [v.11].

Our impairments, our disabilities, our handicaps are not accidents; they are God-designed. He uses every one of our flaws for His own glory. God's way of dealing with what we call "limitations" is not to remove them but to endow them with strength and use them for good.

In the New Testament, Paul the apostle referred to an unspecified "thorn in the flesh" that he repeatedly asked the Lord to take from him [2 Corinthians 12:7-8]. But God said, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness" [v.9].

Paul even learned to "take pleasure" in his troubles. Most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me," he said [v.9]. "For when I am weak, then I am strong" [v.10]. --- David Roper

All faithful saints who walk with God
Through weakness learn to trust His Word;
They're not immune to pain or tears,
But learn to rise above their fears. --- D. De Haan

GOD'S STRENGTH IS BEST SEEN IN OUR WEAKNESS.