DEUTERONOMY 1:6-46
“I alone am not able to bear you.”
Growth is exciting, but growth can also be extremely stressful.
Just compare Abram’s excitement, counting the stars to Moses’ stress dealing with them. Most of us want to grow. We want to grow physically, financially, in our careers, and in our families. Many of us will spend our entire lives trying to grow whatever it is that means the most to you in the moment that we are in. Amen to this!
Growth doesn’t always mean greed. Growth can be a beautiful blessing from God. How amazing it is when a husband and wife grow up their family with little children to love and disciple all the days of their life. How fun is it to see a business or an idea grow through hard work and a strong vision! Even something as potentially dangerous as money, can be a great thing to see grow through discipline, giving, and savings. Growth can be wonderful!
Moses speaks of this excitement and responsibility in this week’s text. Deuteronomy 1:11, “May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous that you are, and bless you as He has promised you!” Even though the people were hard to lead and at times hard to put up with, Moses knew that growth was good.
I pray for all of us to have such a zeal for growth in the healthy spaces in our lives. I pray growth blesses you personally, in your family, and your spiritual walk. If you are a part of our church, you have seen the blessings of growth. You have seen God take a small church hanging on by a thread and God multiply us in endless ways! How fun it has been to witness such blessings!
However, in your life and in the life of Moses, you have also seen that growth comes with a greater need for wisdom and intentionality. In our text this week, Moses speaks to a younger generation from the vantage point of someone who has lived through the ups and downs of growth; through ups and downs in leadership. Moses has made some wonderful as well as some poor decisions when it comes to leadership. Moses comes to us in Deuteronomy with 40 years of leadership experience! Experience that we need to hear and apply.
In this week’s scripture, Moses speaks on the importance of growth, alongside the call of delegating responsibilities, humility, and learning from our past mistakes. In this week’s text, Moses was speaking to those he had walked ahead of. Younger people who had not experienced all that he had been through. He spoke to them hoping that they would listen.
God’s word does the same to us this week in the text. I pray that we all read the text this week and learn from a faithful man who was faithful, but who also often fell.
Open ears and open hearts this week church.
Stay faithful church,
Pastor Hunter
Just compare Abram’s excitement, counting the stars to Moses’ stress dealing with them. Most of us want to grow. We want to grow physically, financially, in our careers, and in our families. Many of us will spend our entire lives trying to grow whatever it is that means the most to you in the moment that we are in. Amen to this!
Growth doesn’t always mean greed. Growth can be a beautiful blessing from God. How amazing it is when a husband and wife grow up their family with little children to love and disciple all the days of their life. How fun is it to see a business or an idea grow through hard work and a strong vision! Even something as potentially dangerous as money, can be a great thing to see grow through discipline, giving, and savings. Growth can be wonderful!
Moses speaks of this excitement and responsibility in this week’s text. Deuteronomy 1:11, “May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous that you are, and bless you as He has promised you!” Even though the people were hard to lead and at times hard to put up with, Moses knew that growth was good.
I pray for all of us to have such a zeal for growth in the healthy spaces in our lives. I pray growth blesses you personally, in your family, and your spiritual walk. If you are a part of our church, you have seen the blessings of growth. You have seen God take a small church hanging on by a thread and God multiply us in endless ways! How fun it has been to witness such blessings!
However, in your life and in the life of Moses, you have also seen that growth comes with a greater need for wisdom and intentionality. In our text this week, Moses speaks to a younger generation from the vantage point of someone who has lived through the ups and downs of growth; through ups and downs in leadership. Moses has made some wonderful as well as some poor decisions when it comes to leadership. Moses comes to us in Deuteronomy with 40 years of leadership experience! Experience that we need to hear and apply.
In this week’s scripture, Moses speaks on the importance of growth, alongside the call of delegating responsibilities, humility, and learning from our past mistakes. In this week’s text, Moses was speaking to those he had walked ahead of. Younger people who had not experienced all that he had been through. He spoke to them hoping that they would listen.
God’s word does the same to us this week in the text. I pray that we all read the text this week and learn from a faithful man who was faithful, but who also often fell.
Open ears and open hearts this week church.
Stay faithful church,
Pastor Hunter
SCRIPTURE TO GO WITH THE MESSAGE
Read Exodus 18 as this week’s text mirrors Moss’s experience early in leadership.
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