From riches to rags, from the highest education to becoming somewhat of an abomination to his tutors. From a prince down to a shepherd in a place unbeknownst to majority. Such was and still is the price that we as Christians must pay just as Moses did. Why? Simply because Yahweh cannot use us when we have a mindset of the world still working within us. We'll find that we argue more with Elohim the more we become 'learned' in the world when all Yahweh really required of us is to learn His Word and His Word alone.
[Mat 4:4] But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of יהוה.
[Jos 1:8] This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
The same amount of years Moses had learned at the hands of the Egyptians, the same number of years Yahweh required it at his hand. 40 years. It took him that long to rid everything of the world within him. From a eloquent and precise man to a stuttering man unable to stand before Pharaoh. Pleading even with Elohim that He'd send another in his stead.
[Exo 4:10] And Moses said unto יהוה, O יהוה, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
[Exo 4:13] And he said, O יהוה, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of him whom Thou wilt send.
I'm not saying that we'll all have to come to a point where our supposed 'humility' even kindles the wrath of Yahweh, however there must be a coming to a point where there was once recognition in the eyes of men toward us to a recognition of Elohim. Inasmuch as the world did not know and even hated our Lord Yeshua Messiah, we as servants should expect such and much more from the world which we are undergoing pilgrimage in.
[Joh 1:10] He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.
[Joh 15:19-20] If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.
It was when Moses was at the zero point in his life where the world was completely buried within and without that Yahweh called unto him and commissioned him the deliverer of His people. A regular man endued with power from on high, given the authority through the working of the Spirit of Yahweh. No such remembrance of the past dealings with the world, currently untrained and unlearned but one thing was in full clarity: Yahweh was and will be with him. Does this sound familiar to us? It should. Yahweh takes no pleasure in calling the prideful and arrogant into His business because then the glory would not be entirely His. Even the man with the most reasons to boast in himself must be humbled until nothing is left of and within himself before the commission from Elohim comes. Now there is a difference between the call of Yahweh and the commission from Yahweh. For one thing, the call is for all, even the prideful and most learned in the world. However the commission is only for those taught personally by the Lord. And that teaching process encompasses much humbling. For only when we see ourselves as having no other options but to constantly and with fervency cling onto Yeshua; the Word of Elohim, then only can we be effective channels of blessing for others to see and witness to. For how can water flow freely through a pipe when it has rocks in it? Something needs to break it. The same with our hearts of stone, pride and arrogance and the sort.
[Jer 23:29] Is not My word like as a fire? saith יהוה; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
To be continued...
-Wednesday, 10th August 2016, 11 months 3 days, 1858
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