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The Power Beyond the Limits
Yenny Kartika Official Writer
1837Exodus 4:12
Go, and I will be with your mouth
and teach you what you shall say.
Bible Reading for a Year [bible]prove21[/bible]; [bible]ephes4[/bible]; [bible]eccle8-9[/bible]
When God called Moses to serve, he
replied, “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 language suggests that Moses
may have had a speech impediment. Perhaps he stuttered. 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 used by God for His own glory. His way of dealing with them
may not be to remove them but to endow us with strength and use our limitations
for good.
If our
weaknesses cause us to seek God and rely on Him, they actually help us instead
of hinder us. In fact, they become the best thing that could happen to us,
because our growth in courage, power, and happiness depends on our relationship
with the Lord and how much we are relying on Him.
Three times the apostle Paul
pleaded with the Lord to remove his impediment, but the Lord answered, “My
grace is sufficient” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Paul then gloried in his
limitations, for he realized that they did not limit him. As he put it, “When I
am weak, then I am strong” (v.10). (David Roper, ODB.org)
God's strength is best seen in our weakness.
