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A Daily Devotional
About receiving power:
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I went up on the
mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the
LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I
ate no bread and drank no water. (NIV)
Moses was humble. Moses
went to the mountain in a spirit of reception. Moses did not go to the mountain
to receive the stone tablets with a heart full of ego. Moses did not go to meet
God to receive a blast of power from God. Moses did not go to God yearning to be
a maximum leader or dictator over God's people. In a worldly sense, God's people
perhaps needed a dictator who ruled with an iron fist, but God's way is not the
way of coercion or intimidation. God's way is to point out to us the way we
should go. Then God lets us decide if we want to follow His directions.
Following or not following God has its consequences. Following God brings
blessings. Not following God brings a multitude of curses. In this example
showing the humility of Moses, we can see we must lose our ego. Moses was on the
mountain to receive the tablets of stone God wanted to give him. Moses fasted
for forty days and forty nights. Moses might have come close to death but was
restored enough by God to carry the tablets down the mountain. To have any kind
of power from God, we must do the great work of preparing our heart and life to
receive whatever God wants to give us.
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Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the HOLY
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