I Will Be With You

And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[b] will worship God on this mountain

Exodus 3:12

When God calls a man, he calls him to do things he wouldn’t normally be capable of, things beyond his physical strength or available resources. Yet, God maintains he has all he needs to get it done. Usually in those moments, there appears to be a great disparity between our view of our life and the view God is seeing. The reason for this is that God sees us in the fullness of all he has made us to be but we see ourselves in the reality of all we have ever been.

For instance, when Gideon was hiding cowardly away from the Midianites in the Book of Judges, God came to him and said “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” (Judges 6:12). While Gideon was still trying to recover from how ridiculous this greeting sounded, the Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” (Judges 6:14). It was at this point that he had to object “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” (Judges 6:15). But God read to him his eternal script of encouragement “…I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” (Judges 6:16)

‘I will be with you’ seems to be God’s unchanging curriculum for raising men of valour. Just like He did with Gideon, he made the same promise to Moses many years earlier when Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11). Moses expresses his apprehension by reminding God of his past attempt at a salvation ministry some years back and how Pharaoh came after him with all the resources of Egypt. He had two choices: run or die. He chose to run. Returning to the same place now felt more like a death wish than a ministry, but God said to him just like he said to Gideon, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[b] will worship God on this mountain.”(Exodus 3:11)

In the same way, He is saying to you today ‘I will be with you’. When God commands a man to do something, he first gives him the ability to do it even if the man does not know he has the ability. It is only as we take steps of faith that we begin to realise that God has empowered us beyond our imagination. 

What has the Lord placed on your heart to do? Take the first step today and watch him show up. 

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