“Now” Present
Exodus 2:11-14 | Exodus 3:5, 14
- It is impossible to succeed in Christ if you have appointed yourself. Moses learned this lesson. In Exodus 2, Moses tried to redeem God’s people in his own fleshly capacity. He failed. They were self-appointed, motivated by self-imposed necessity and not by Christ.
Can Adam stand up to the circumstances by appointing himself? Or because of the living body, will his answer be the cross? If we have Calvary, we will be resurrected in the body of Christ. If we are members of His body, we will be sent. The effectiveness of our ministry will be seen in the meaning of His life and not in our personal accounting of need and our efforts to meet that need.
As Moses did, we must learn. That necessity does not give texture to the call. God’s call gives structure to need. After Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness, he realized that he did not have what it takes to redeem people. God showed him a burning bush. Now Moses was sent from the fire and not from his body.
Moses’ strength is in God who lives in the present. To live in time, Moses’ assessment of the past or the future can never be salvation for Israel. When he knew “I am that I am,” then Christ became the source of his life and the ruler over his time. God lives in the present. The answer to Israel’s redemption was in the Spirit of God, who lives in the now.
Today’s reading passage Numbers 25- 27