Have you ever wondered how much you might be hindering the work that God wants to do in the people and world around you? Well for me, I am sure I hinder some of God’s plans. I know that to be true because I don’t know all of His plans and I don’t know all of His ways. I’m a hinderance for sure.
In Exodus 4, God tells Moses to go to Egypt and free His people. But Moses had a hard time believing he could do what God wanted him to do. Moses’ lack of belief hindered God just for a bit. In Exodus 4:30-31, scripture says this simple thing. “Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.” They did the signs God told them to do, and the people believed. Then, because they believed, they worshiped God.
What were the signs God wanted to work through Moses? Well, God turned a rod into a serpent and then back into a rod. Then He caused Moses’ hand to become leprous before restoring it like it was before. And finally, He caused water from a river to become blood on dry land.
The signs were for the people to believe that God had sent Moses to deliver them from their bondage. But they needed to believe what they couldn’t imagine more than what they saw daily. The same thing that would have hindered them from receiving their deliverance almost kept Moses from being part of God’s plan. Belief.
A lack of belief or doubt are seeds that grow to hinder God’s planned work through us. But belief is a powerful thing in our lives. It helps us learn to accept what we cannot imagine in the face of adversities that are ever with us. Belief is what we have to help us. It is never there to hinder us.
Now we know that none of us can keep God from doing anything that He wants to do. But we can hinder Him in what He wants to do through us or with us. Belief is the forefront of strong faith. It is the backend to a life of worship. Belief is the help we use to get out of the way of the things God wants to do with us.
Sometimes in our lives we all have moments when God tries to give us signs to believe that He is with us. We don’t always see the signs because we look for Him to do more than just to be with us. We want Him to change what is happening with us.
Each of us has at some point leaned on a rod or a stick to help balance our walk through something difficult. It can be the rod of medicine or food instead of the strength of belief.
We may use the rod of forgetfulness or ungratefulness for good health to keep us from seeing that poor health is just a wave of the hand away. Good health should be to us a sign that God cares about us. He is the one true healer we need.
Things will not always turn out the way many people want. When they draw water only to find it is undrinkable, they are discouraged. We may use our abundance of good things to hinder us from seeing that in our abundance we should be a help and a provision for those who have need.
Bondage for some people is right before us. It happens in many ways, and it is not as far away as Egypt. So, let’s make sure we are a help more than a hindrance to God when He has plans to use us in the lives and circumstances around us.
Learn to focus more on the people around you instead of the things that hinder you. Believe so that you become a help rather than hindrance.
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