Last night I had the opportunity to watch the movie The Ten Commandments featuring Dougray Scott as Moses. The way my evening started off, I didn't think I would do much of anything. Then I thought to myself that last week in our Story of God series, we read through Moses and the Passover - and this week we're going to be going through the Law - I thought what better opportunity than this to watch the movie where it was all done and made.
At first I thought I would go through it in hopes to be enlightened to help continue through our Story of God series - BUT - as I went through it, I saw something different.
I saw Moses kill a man, yet God's redemption plan in place. I saw a man who doubted God and God's plan as being God's chosen one, be transformed and believe in God more than most people in today's day believe in the same God.
A few thousand years ago, there was a man named Moses. His God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The question would become what has changed between then and now?
Am I not a man? Is my God not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
If the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the creator of the heavens and the earth, the God who parted the Red Sea, the God who sent many plagues to Pharaoh; if our God is the same God who did all these powerful things - why do we doubt that this same God can change the world we live in?
Why do we believe that we can go and do things ourselves?
Moses went up Mount Sinai to be with God as God gave him the 10 Commandments. While Moses was gone, the Israelites thought they could build a golden calf to worship their "gods".
Is this what God wanted, or is this what the people wanted?
God wants us to live in peace. God sent us his only Son, Jesus Christ, that we may live in that peace, yet why don't we have it?
So the question becomes, are you doing as Moses did and are simply doing the will of God or are you doing the things that you want to do?
At first I thought I would go through it in hopes to be enlightened to help continue through our Story of God series - BUT - as I went through it, I saw something different.
I saw Moses kill a man, yet God's redemption plan in place. I saw a man who doubted God and God's plan as being God's chosen one, be transformed and believe in God more than most people in today's day believe in the same God.
A few thousand years ago, there was a man named Moses. His God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The question would become what has changed between then and now?
Am I not a man? Is my God not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
If the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the creator of the heavens and the earth, the God who parted the Red Sea, the God who sent many plagues to Pharaoh; if our God is the same God who did all these powerful things - why do we doubt that this same God can change the world we live in?
Why do we believe that we can go and do things ourselves?
Moses went up Mount Sinai to be with God as God gave him the 10 Commandments. While Moses was gone, the Israelites thought they could build a golden calf to worship their "gods".
Is this what God wanted, or is this what the people wanted?
God wants us to live in peace. God sent us his only Son, Jesus Christ, that we may live in that peace, yet why don't we have it?
So the question becomes, are you doing as Moses did and are simply doing the will of God or are you doing the things that you want to do?
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