Last week, We talk about Mary's Persistent Faith. On how her Faith had made Jesus's first miracle possible. This week, there is another kind of faith that really caught my attention in the bible... Enthusiastic Faith of Moses.
Exo 3:1-10 Moses and the burning bush.
Moses didnt start off with Great mountain moving faith. Within the burning bush encounter with God. He repeatedly doubted what God said to him. Responses like who am i? What if they ask me what is His name? What if they dont believe me? i am not eloquent. What kind of man was Moses? He was a timid man. He had no confidence about himself. God had to reassure him again and again.
But the truth of the matter is God is asking Moses to do the impossible. Moses had killed a soldier back in Egypt! He had turned his back from Pharaoh, the very person he had grown up with during his childhood. And now God was telling him to go back to Egypt! Just Imagine for a moment, would you dare to go back to a place where you had committed a sin as bad as murder and the authorities are after you?
Would Mas Selamat dare to come back to Singapore after escaping from Singapore to Malaysia? God's direction to Moses is as good as asking Mas Selamat to come back to Singapore... Who would have such faith? Moses had...
I wonder how many of us have had bad experiences before. These setbacks have paralyzed us. We told ourselves that we would never step out and do something different, that we would never take risks, because we never want to experience failure again. All the bad experiences we went through only serve to remind us that we are never good enough.
Our past serve as a constant reminder for us not to make the same mistake again. However our past cannot crippled us. No one can drive smoothly forward by looking into the rear mirror everytime he drives. In side the rear mirror speaks of our past. The path that we had taken. The purpose of the rear mirror is really to warn us of the danger not cripple us.
Do you have the faith of Moses? A never dying faith. A faith that is always enthusiastic no matter what kind of past we come from.
3rd kind of Faith - Faith of King David -- 23rd Feb 2010
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