God's Speed

A friend told me that when he was three years of age, his father, a carpenter used a two wheel handcart to carry wood and tools. Sometimes he would take him on the cart with him. One day he wanted to help push the cart. So, nearer where they were going, his father set him down, put his small hands on the cart and said he could help push. The people at the house saw them arriving with the tiny boy. Dad told them how he had ‘helped’. A three year old doesn’t walk very fast. Dad could have managed better and quicker without his son. However, it was a principle, the satisfaction of a son with his father was more important than speed. The Almighty God wants our hands on the “cart”. Moses could not create the plagues of Egypt, but he called them down. He had no power over winds and water but the sea parted at his command. Moses as one man could not defeat an Egyptian military brigade but with God he did; quite a change of role for a shepherd. “Salvation is of the Lord”, but the LORD never operates solo. He chooses volunteers. God saves only those who know that He saves, but nobody knows unless we tell them. (Romans 10:14). Do what we can and He will do what we cannot. Do the possible and He does the impossible. Look again at that great Bible example of a servant of God, Moses. He was the meekest man on earth but not the bravest. He had no army. Israel was still only a rabble of tribes, but Moses snatched the entire slave force of Pharaoh from under his royal nose, “not a hoof left behind”. Joining forces with a God like that Moses showed fearless audacity and drive. God took away the heart of a rabbit and gave him the heart of a lion. God bless you. Greetings from Florida.

REINHARD BONNKE